Langasandur

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Langasandur
Langesand (Danish)
Village
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Langasandur (seen from the north)
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Langasandur
Location in the Faroe Islands
Coordinates: 62°14′14″N7°3′13″W / 62.23722°N 7.05361°W / 62.23722; -7.05361
StateFlag of Denmark.svg Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent countryFlag of the Faroe Islands.svg Faroe Islands
Island Streymoy
Municipality Sunda
Population
 (September 2025) [1]
 • Total
41
Time zone GMT
 • Summer (DST) UTC+1 (EST)
Postal code
FO 438
Climate Cfc

Langasandur (Danish : Langesand) is a village located on the Faroese island of Streymoy in the municipality of Sunda.

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The village was settled in 1938, the name Langasandur means Longbeach.

Whaling station

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Langasandur with its beach

In 1894, the first whaling station in the Faroe Islands, was built at Gjánoyri, about 1 km south of the village. It was constructed by the Norwegian Hans Albert Grøn from Sandefjord, he sailed one of his decommissioned whaling stations from Finnmarken, and set it up in Gjánoyri, and started whaling with his boat Urd. [2]

The first whaling season, lasted from 24 June, when the first whale was shot, to 9 September when Grøn returned to Norway with 940 barrels of whale oil, and 5 tonnes of baleen, 46 whales were shot. [3]

In 1901, Grøn built the first industrial factory in the country, it was located right next to the whaling station, and produced bone meal to increase earnings from the whales, which before, only gave whale oil, and almost free whale meat to the locals.

The station closed down in 1925. [4]

The boats connected to the station were: Urd (1894-1911), Skuld (1897-1911), Funding (1914), Leif (1914), Dominion I (1920) and Norman I (1920) [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IB01010 Fólkatalsbroytingar skiftar á fødd, deyð, flutt, bygd og mánaðir (1985-2025)". Hagtalsgrunnur. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Savn.fo, Søga (in Faroese) Archived 18 December 2012 at archive.today
  3. ↑ Jacobsen, Helgi (2007). Hvalurin er Mín. Forlagið Ritstarv. p. 45. ISBN   978-99918-816-0-7.
  4. ↑ "Søvn Landsins". Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Søvn Landsins, Hvalabátar". Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
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