Trongisvágsfjørður
Coordinates: 61 ° 32 ′ 41 ″ N , 6 ° 47 ′ 39 ″ W.
The Trongisvágsfjørður [ ˈtɹɔnʤɪsvɔksˌfjøːɹʊr ] is a fjord of the Faroe Islands on the east coast of the southern island of Suðuroy .
The fjord cuts into the country about 7 km deep from southeast to northwest. Here is the largest metropolitan area of Suðuroy: Froðba (187 Ew. In February 2005) on the northern bank of the fjord mouth, west of it the city of Tvøroyri (1,170 Ew.), At the end of the fjord Trongisvágur (410 Ew.), On the southwest bank then Øravíkarlíð (67 Ew.) And finally Øravík (38 Ew.), Which together are 1,872 inhabitants, or about 2/5 of the island's population. Not far from the end of the fjord extends the Viðarlundin í Trongisvági , one of the largest forests in the Faroe Islands.
The fjord has always been a cheap natural harbor. The Tjaldavíkshólmur on the south bank of the fjord mouth served as a camping site for the farmers who gathered here for várting since the Viking Age in the Faroe Islands .
The monopoly trade over the Faroe Islands opened a branch in Tvøroyri in the 19th century , which established the growth into a real small town. The liner Smyril (now in the 5th generation of a state-of-the-art car ferry) has been operating since the end of the 19th century and connects the South Island with the rest of the North Atlantic archipelago. The Drelnes ferry port is located on the south-west bank at Øravíkarlíð.
Aviation history
There was great excitement on August 29, 1928 when the German aviation pioneer Wolfgang von Gronau hit the fjord with his seaplane . It was only the third time in the history of the Faroe Islands that a plane had visited and the first time for the residents of Tvøroyri and the surrounding area to see a plane. The children should have been so excited that they grindaboð ! (Pilot whale alarm) called. Von Gronau is said to have been a secretive man, and so the Faroese never found out why he often flew here in the following years and even made friends. However, it is assumed that, as a flight instructor, he completed training flights for longer trips to the Atlantic. His Faroe flights probably served as preparation for his North Atlantic crossing in 1930 and the legendary circumnavigation of the world in 1932.
Two other aviation pioneers are world-famous: Charles Lindbergh , together with his wife and co-pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh, splashed down on Trongisvágsfjørður in 1933. He was on his way to finding a cheap route New York - Copenhagen for Pan Am . There was a crowd and a celebration was scheduled. Because of the death of their son the year before, Lindbergh and his wife refused, and so there was only one meal in a small group. Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen was working for the Danish newspaper Politiken at the time and wanted to interview Lindbergh the next day, but Lindbergh just wanted to be quiet.
But Lindbergh taught the Faroe Islands one thing: In his opinion, Trongisvágsfjørður is the most suitable fjord in the Faroe Islands to set up a seaplane base for the North Atlantic route. From then on, the Faroe Islands dreamed of a connection to modern air traffic, but it wasn't until the Faroe Islands were occupied by Great Britain in World War II that the Faroe Islands got Vágar Airport . The British did not share Lindbergh's view, but found Skálafjørður to be more suitable, but ultimately decided to use Lake Leitisvatn on Vágar as a seaplane base as long as the runway was not yet completed.
At Froðba there is now a helipad , which forms the southern end of the helicopter line from Tórshavn via Skúvoy and Stóra Dímun .