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Nordic Visitor:
Fantastic Faroes
The Faroe Islands is a paradise for nature lovers and perfect
for walking without a guide. Experience up close the birdlife,
the green nuances of the mountains, the colourful villages,
beautiful deep fjords and the nearby islands that rise
majestically. Maybe you will feel as though you are part of a
fairytale world.
Read more at:
faroeislands.nordicvisitor.com
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Inn Travel:
Land of the Faroes
By Jonathan Clark, Holiday Operations Team, July 8, 2010:
What an amazing place! What extreme landscapes! What a
dramatic coastline! Where am I talking about? Well, it’s
somewhere new to me - the Faroe Islands, where I’ve just enjoyed
a walking and camping holiday. I decided to go by boat, catching
the ferry from Esbjerg in Denmark - and I think I made the right
choice. Arriving by sea is definitely the most exciting way of
approaching some places, especially when the ‘place’ in question
is a group of seemingly isolated islands in the middle of the
North Atlantic.
Read more at:
www.inntravel.co.uk
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BootsnAll Travel:
Naked in Mykines, Faroe Islands
By Philip Blazdell, Apr 2010:
"The long day walking, the camera-melting loveliness
of the scenery of the Faroe Islands combined with the wonderful
weather were obviously too much for me and I was suddenly
overcome by the urge to meditate – naked. Normally, I am not
really one for taking my clothes off in public places and only a
few weeks previously I had run out of a sauna in Germany when
six nubile Teutonic teenager girls had sauntered in wearing just
dazzling white smiles. The only time I had actually gone skinny
dipping (in Africa) had resulted in me cavorting naked through a
local village and gate crashing a funeral looking for my stolen
clothes. But, as everyone else had left the island I felt that
it might be fun."
Read the article here:
www.bootsnall.com
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Examiner.com:
The Faroe Islands, on the Viking Trail
By Seattle Destinations Examiner Jim Dutkiewicz, March
23, 2010:
The Viking trail is a path of settlement followed by
farmers, warriors, fishermen, and herdsmen from Scandinavia. The
trail goes from Scandinavia, through the northern British Isles
and Ireland, to the Faroes and Iceland, Greenland and finally to
Canada. In the seventh century population pressures and a
shortage of arable land began encouraging people to emigrate
from Scandinavia. One of the places they settled was the Faroe
Islands.
Read more here:
www.examiner.com
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Budget Traveler:
A Faroe Islands Vacation For a Truly Unique Experience
By Gary Hill, March 31, 2010:
BUDGET TRAVELER - "Have you ever been to the Faroe Islands?
Finding a unique holiday or vacation destination has become
something of a game amongst those with easy money to spend. The
famous where are you going this year question becomes ever more
competitive year by year. But if you take a vacation to the
Faroe Islands then you really are going to trump most of your
friends."
Read more here:
budgetotraveler.com
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The Times:
Faeroe Isles:
‘Silence. Isolation. It’s breathtaking’
By Tom Chesshyre, March 27, 2010
THE TIMES - "The loudest noise you’ll hear on these
little-visited islands is the squawking of the local birdlife.
It’s pouring down, absolutely streaming. Wind lashes across the
cliffs above the treacherous Atlantic Ocean. And I’m on my
summer holiday. But I’m loving it because all around us, wings
flapping madly a few feet above our heads, there they are:
squadrons of shiny black puffins. We are in the centre of a
puffin colony on the edge of the island of Mykines (pronounced
Mitchiness) in the Faeroe Isles, reached by a 45-minute ferry
that departs twice a day from Vagar, another island."
Read the article:
www.timesonline.co.uk
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New York Times:
Into the Mystical Unreal Reality of the Faroe Islands
By Stephen Metcalf, 25 March 2007:
"In a small cafe in a town called Nolsoy, on an archipelago in the middle of the
North Atlantic, surrounded by barflies and the blue fug of cigarette smoke, I am
trying to be unobtrusive. This is not going so well."
Read more here:
New York Times Travel, T Style Magazine
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Los Angeles Times:
Fit for the Faroe Islands
By Catherine Watson, Reporting from The Faroe Islands,
July 02, 2009
"The islands have unstable weather but steady culture and
constant beauty... From the mountaintop road above Kvivik, green
slopes fell steeply away to the sea, drawing my eyes outward,
over the village, to the soft shapes of other islands drifting
in the pale blue distance. More than a thousand years of Faroe
Islands history lay in that view. It was like looking at a map
of time itself."
Read more here:
Los Angeles Times > Travel Section
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The Independent:
Beguiling land of the Faroes
By Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, 29 August 2009:
"These tiny islands might be isolated, but they are easy to explore", says Tony
Wheeler.
Read more here:
The Independent, Travel in Europe
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Times Online:
The World's Most Unspoilt Islands
By Rob Mason, May 8, 2009:
Rob Mason has a brief glimpse of the 18 islands that specialise in
weather and long, long summer days
Read more here:
Times Online
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The Observer:
Northern Rocks
By Ruaridh Nicoll, 22 June 2008:
"For years Ruaridh Nicoll had been hearing stories of
adventure and friendship in the Faroe Islands from his father-in-law, an artist
who knew them intimately in the 1970s. But when they finally travelled north
together, would everything have changed?"
Read more here:
The Observer Sunday
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The Guardian:
Hardy country
By Sarah Crown, Thursday 8 July 2004:
"Drawn to the untamed scenery of the Faroe Islands, Sarah Crown finds a
remote land where the sheep are fearless, the birds are shrewd and the
weather is a state of mind"
Read more here:
Guardian.co.uk
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The Post:
Far Away in the Faroes
Jan 2010:
"Although the young generations mostly go to Denmark for the several
years of their university life, a surprising 90 per cent of them
return to settle down. Having spent an all too brief four days
there, it was easy to see why they would be reluctant to leave, even
for the bright lights of Copenhagen."
Read more here:
The Post.ie - The Sunday Business Post Online, Ireland
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Journey Idea:
Travel Faroe Islands
By Ricky, 22 August 2009:
"The fascinating Faroes are simply a short air-trip away from the United
Kingdom; still they would be vouched as the rather off-beaten tracks to
be ventured out for a standard tourist. Afloat in the foaming engorges
of the northern Atlantic; the mystic eighteen part jigsaw riddle of
islands is a tasteful blend of primeval and ultra-contemporary."
Read more here:
Journey Idea, Fascinating Islands,
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Iceland Review:
The Middle of Nowhere
By Sara Blask, 2007:
"Caught in the North Atlantic between Iceland
and Norway, the Faroe Islands may mean “sheep islands,” but take
a road trip and you'll realize there’s more to this archipelago
than its name reveals."
Read more here:
Iceland Review
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Traveltribe:
Faroe Islands Travel
"The Faroe Islands are sure to awaken your senses with their
emotive and evocative displays of nature...It’s difficult to
imagine that such a place still subsists. Idyllic yet
tempestuous, the oft fog veiled treeless moorlands of the Faroes
are peppered with multicolored cottage dwellings, grass roofed
wooden churches and Viking stone farmhouses and sheep flocking
on green pastures of scotch heather.... Looking for an unsual
experience?"
Read more at:
www.traveltribe.com
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Landsbanki Føroya:
Outlook for Faroese Economy
In connection with the drawing of the Faroese
Budget for 2011, the Faroese Governmental Bank
(Landsbanki Føroya) has made an assessment of the
economy and the economic outlook for the Faroese
economy in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The report is as
usual limited to an account of the economic trends
as well as a projection of the key figures in the
national accounts of 2009, 2010 and 2011 based on
the economic model of the Governmental Bank.
Read more at:
www.landsbankin.fo (PDF-file)
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Copenhagen Post
Danish Fear Faroese Constitution Proposal
RC NEWS, May 05, 2010:
Danish politicians fear that a new proposal from the
Faroese to change the country’s constitution goes against the
tenets established through the kingdom. Prime minister Lars
Løkke Rasmussen has given a serious warning to the Faroe Islands
that the small island country is playing with fire in their
efforts to author a new constitution, reports Berlingske Tidende
newspaper. The proposal, entitled ‘Parliamentary Law on the
Faroese Constitution’, was submitted by a parliamentary
committee in March. In the text, it states that ‘all power in
the country lies with the Faroese people, and there is no
reference whatsoever to the commonwealth constitution or to
Denmark.
Read more here:
www.cphpost.dk
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Denmark.dk:
About the Faroes
Here is a series of very informative articles about the Faroe
Islands:
(Source: www.denmark.dk)
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Faroe Islands:
The Next Country?
Elin Brimheim Heinesen was the Managing Director of SamVit - the
Faroe Islands Tourist Board and Trade Council - from 2007 to
2009 until SamVit merged with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She wrote a few articles about the Faroe Islands now and in the
future which have been published or quoted in several
publications abroad.
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Home Rule:
The Faroe Islands Self-Government Arrangement
The Faroe Islands Home Rule Arrangement was established by
Act no. 137 of 23 March 1948 (the Faroe Islands Home Rule Act).
In pursuance of Section 1 of the Act, the Faroe Islands are a
self-governing community within the Kingdom of Denmark. By Act
no. 578 of 24 June 2005 (the Takeover Act) supplementary to the
Home Rule Act, a new Self-Government Arrangement was introduced
in The Faroe Islands. The act of 2005 expands the possibilities
of the Faroese public authorities to decide to takeover new
affairs and fields of affairs. Take Over Act entered into force
on 29 July 2005. Together with the Danish Constitution, the Home
Rule Act and The Takeover Act, constitutes the Faroe Islands’
constitutional position in the Unity of the Realm.
Read more at:
www.stm.dk
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Faroe Islands and the European Union
The Faroe Islands, a self-governing nation within the Kingdom
of Denmark, are not part of the EU, as explicitly asserted by
both Rome treaties. The relations with the EU are governed by a
Fisheries Agreement (1977) and a Free Trade Agreement (1991,
revised 1998). The main reason for remaining outside the EU is
disagreements about the Common Fisheries Policy.
Read more at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands_and_the_European_Union
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Young Performing Art:
Ung í Føroyum 2010 In The Faroe Islands
Mar 29, 2010:
VALHALLA-NORDEN: On the last weekend of February the air in
the Nordic House in the Faeroe Islands was filled with
creativity and curiosity. The house served as the framework of
the culture project Ung í Føroyum ('Young People in the
Faeroes'), which is a cultural initiative aimed at young people
from 13 to 18 years. This year Ung í Føroyum had 60 participants
split up into six workshops. The workshops were dedicated to
dance, design, visual art, circus, writing and music
respectively.
Read more here:
valhalla.norden.org
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Indie Film Festival:
Faroese Short Film "A Bad Day" Screens
At European Indie Film Festival 2010
15 Feb 2010:
A short film by Faroese film-maker Bjarki Thomsen "A Bad
Day" will be screened at the European Independent Film Festival
(ÉCU) which screens the very best independent films from around
the world to a large audience of filmmakers, film industry
professionals and a public that craves the energy and free
spiritedness of creative independent films.
ÉCU 2010 will be held at Le Grand Action Cinema in Paris, France
from 12th-14th March, 2
Read an interview with film-maker Bjarki Thomsen here:
www.fest21.com
Watch the trailer to
"A Bad Day" here.
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The Guardian:
The Faroes' Summer Music Festival
By Paul Sullivan, Saturday 2 January 2010:
"Fancy something less commercial than Glasto or Benicàssim? Then try the
Faroes' G! Festival, with its quirky bands and amazing setting."
Read more here:
The Guardian
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The Observer:
The End of the World
By Will Hodgkinson, Sunday 14 June 2009:
"The Faroe Islands, halfway to Iceland, has a tiny population with a huge
appetite for fish, whale hunting and astonishing music. Will Hodgkinson meets
the indie bands and folk singers - and the group that plays cement mixers."
Read more here:
The Observer
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New Yourk Times:
Roaming Camera Catches Life on the Faroe Islands
By Janet Maslin, March 30, 1991
"Katrin Ottarsdottir's "Atlantic Rhapsody: 52 Scenes From
Torshavn," the first and only feature film by a director native
to the Faroe Islands, is also a novelty on another score. Its
narrative focus is shifted successively from one character to
another, in the manner of a relay race, throughout the film's
entire running time."
Read more here:
The New York Times > Movies: Review/Film
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Oil Industry:
Faroe Petroleum Spuds Anne Marie Prospect
Scandinavian Oil & Gas Magazine, Jul 26,
2010:
Faroe Petroleum says that drilling operations have
commenced on the Anne Marie prospect (Faroe
Petroleum 12.5%), located offshore, the Faroe
Islands. The commitment well (6004/8a-1) is located
in 1,106m of water depth, 190km South East of
Torshavn, targeting potentially oil bearing
sandstone of Eocene and Palaeocene age in a
structural trap. The well is being drilled by the
Norwegian semi-submersible rig Seadrill West
Phoenix, which is expected to remain in operation
for about 75 days.
Read more at:
www.scandoil.com
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Oil Industry:
Exploratory Well Spudded In The Faroe Islands
By OGJ editors, July 26, 2010:
HOUSTON, July 26 – A group led by operator Eni
Denmark BV has spudded an exploratory well on the
Anne Marie prospect off the Faroe Islands on the
Atlantic margin. The Seadrill West Phoenix
semisubmersible is drilling the 6004/8a-1 commitment
well in 1,106 m of water 190 km southeast of
Torshavn. It targets an oil prospect in a structural
trap of Eocene and Paleocene age.
Read more at:
www.pennenergy.com
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Oil Industry:
Dana Petroleum Provides Drilling & Exploration
Programme Uodate
Offshore Energy Today, July 16, 2010:
Dana is pleased to report that the West Phoenix
rig has been released from its recent well offshore
Norway and will shortly be mobilising for the Anne
Marie well in the Faroe Islands. The well is
expected to spud within the next two weeks. Dana
holds a direct 25% interest in the Anne Marie
prospect. In addition, Faroe Petroleum plc (“FP”),
in which Dana is the largest shareholder with a
27.5% stake, has a 12.5% interest in Anne Marie.
Read more at:
www.offshoreenergytoday.com
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Fishing Industry:
'Tough talks' Lie Ahead in Mackerel Row
Fish Update, July 8, 2010:
THE European Union has conceded that tough talks lie
ahead to bring Iceland and the Faroe Islands into
line over mackerel fishing. These two 'rebel' states
are currently on collision course with the EU block
and Norway, which is not a member, because they have
unilaterally set themselves large mackerel quotas.
Read more at:
www.fishupdate.com
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Oil Industry:
Faroe Petroleum Appoints Hanne Harlem As
Independent Non-Executive Director
Offshore Energy Today, July 12, 2010:
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company
focusing on exploration, production, appraisal and
undeveloped field opportunities in the Atlantic
Margin, North Sea and Norway, announced that Hanne
Harlem (age 45) has been appointed to the Board as
an Independent Non-Executive Director, effective
immediately.
Read more at:
www.offshoreenergytoday.com
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Oil Industry:
Dana Farms Into Faroes Permit
Offshore, July 9, 2010:
TORSHAVN, Faroe Islands -- Dana Petroleum (E&P)
has joined the list of companies exploring offshore
the Faroe Islands. Johan Dahl, the islands’ Minister
of Trade and Industry, approved a 25% assignment of
ENI's equity share in License 005 to Dana Petroleum
(E&P). The drilling rig West Phoenix is preparing to
spud an exploratory well on the Anne Marie prospect.
Read more at:
www.offshore-mag.com
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Fishing News:
Canada Gets Warrant To Seize Faroese Ship
CBC News, Friday May 07, 2010:
- Gus Etchegary, a vocal advocate for Canada's
fishing rights, doubts a fishing vessel from the
Danish-owned Faroe Islands accused of illegal
fishing in Canadian waters will ever be caught. A
warrant was issued in a St. John's courtroom for the
seizure of a European vessel accused of illegal
fishing in Canadian waters, even though a skeptical
fisheries advocate doubts it will ever be executed.
The federal government alleges that the fishing
vessel Enniberg, based out of the Danish-owned Faroe
Islands, was inside Canada's boundary in October
2009.
Read more here:
www.cbc.ca
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Oil Industry:
Gas and Condensate Discovery
Blue Pulz, Friday Apr 23, 2010:
FAROES/UK/NORWAY: Faroe Petroleum, the independent
oil and gas company focusing principally on
exploration, appraisal and undeveloped field
opportunities, has announced a gas and condensate
discovery on the Fogelberg prospect (Faroe 15%),
located in PL433 in the Norwegian Sea.
Read more here:
www.bluepulz.com
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Oil Industry:
ENI To Drill Deepwater Faroese Prospect
Offshore Magazine, Apr 27, 2010:
TORSHAVN, Faroe Islands -- The Faroese Earth and
Energy Directorate (Jardfeingi) has approved ENI’s
plan to drill an exploration well in offshore
license 005. The permit covers an area southeast of
the Faroe Islands.
Read more here:
www.offshore-mag.com
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Faroe Petroleum:
Third High Impact Exploration Success In A Row
Oil Barrel, Apr 25, 2010:
This time in The Norwegian Sea. Faroe Petroleum
started life just ten years ago to capitalise on the
opportunities in what was seen as a potentially very
prospective but virtually untouched frontier oil and
gas province -- the waters around the Faroe Islands.
Read more here:
www.oilbarrel.com
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New Release:
Faroe Business Report 2010
Quote from presentation of the report:
"In tough times, some tend to be reluctant to
engage in any communication that goes beyond what is
considered an absolute minimum required for normal
functioning. Few will dispute, however, that
managing stakeholder relations is becoming
increasingly crucial to survival in todays rapidly
changing business world. Conveying appropriate
messages to key constituencies on a need-to-do basis
practically means such communication should happen
at reasonable frequencies. Otherwise, in todays
maelstrom of messages, its too easy to be rendered
irrelevant. This is where Faroe Business Report
comes in as a tool for those businesses and
organizations that want to reach out to their most
important readers, and make those points that need
to be made. "
Read more at:
www.annualbusinessreport.com
Read the report here:
www.faroebusinessreport.com
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Fiscal Report, Out April 2010:
Faroe Islands Upstream Oil & Gas Fiscal Regime:
2010
Summary: "GlobalData’s Faroe Islands upstream oil
and gas fiscal regime report is an essential source
for information related to the upstream fiscal
system enacted in Faroe Islands’s oil and gas
industry. This report contains information related
to various types of payments that are to be made by
any oil and gas producing company to the host
government. The report provides the most recent laws
and tax policies in the country. Each fiscal report
is supported by a fully editable and interactive
Excel model, where all the fiscal terms are applied
on a hypothetical base asset. This interactive Excel
model, with the latest fiscal term information, is
the most appropriate tool to evaluate the
profitability of operating oil and gas fields under
the country’s fiscal environment."
More information here:
www.bharatbook.com
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Faroese Cod and Haddock:
Faroese Delegation Visits Seafish To Address
Supply Chain Issues
Mar 24, 2010:
INTERSEAFOOD.COM - UK processors are facing
supply chain issues with Faroes cod and haddock
which are important stocks for the UK and European
markets. To address these issues, a delegation of
seven key representatives from the Faroes fishing
industry visited the Seafish offices in Grimsby to
meet with Seafish staff and key customers. Due
to the Faroese stocks being at risk of reduced
reproductive capacity, the International Council for
Exploration of the Seas (ICES) has recommended a
moratorium on both cod and haddock catches in
Faroese waters throughout 2010. As a result, Faroes
cod and haddock has now been de-listed by a number
of key customers.
Read more here:
www.interseafood.com
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New market opportunities:
US market open to Faroese Salmon Farmers
By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor, Mar 16,
2010
BOSTON - Now that the International Boston
Seafood Show at the Boston Convention & Exhibition
Center has come to a close, it's become clear that
favorable market conditions are opening up the U.S.
market to Faroe Islands salmon farmers, and they’re
seizing the opportunity. Salmon prices are up,
shipping costs are down and U.S. sushi chefs are on
the prowl for high-quality, sustainably raised
salmon. The result: U.S. imports of Faeroe Islands
salmon were up an impressive 315 percent last year.
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Fish Export:
Bakkafrost To Be Listed At Oslo Børs
Saturday Mar 13, 2010:
Bakkafrost the leading Faroese producer and exporter
of salmon products has announced that will submit an
application for listing its shares on Oslo Børs in
Norway shortly. The announcement follows the merger
of the Vestlax Group into the Bakkafrost Group
earlier this year. Bakkafrost provides fresh salmon
to the fresh fish market, smokehouses and processors
of ready meals, and frozen value added salmon
portions vacuum packed in catering boxes or in bulk
to the retail and catering markets.
Read more here:
fis.com
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Shrimp Dispute With Canada:
Faroe Islands In A Fume Over Port Closures
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
CANADA - The Canadian government’s decision
last week to ban Danish fishing vessels from East
Coast ports for overfishing of shrimp has been
knocked as “heavy-handed” and “unacceptable” by the
Faroe Islands, whose fleets were also affected.
Faroe Islands Foreign Minister Jørgen Niclasen said
his fleets will defy Canada and continue to combat
NAFO’s “unreasonable and unfair allocation” for
Danish fishers in the 3L zone.
Read the whole article here:
fis.com/fis/worldnews/
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Atlantic Airways summer 2010 services:
Twice A Week Between London And The Faroes
Atlantic Airways, the national airline of the
Faroe Islands, is to operate a twice-weekly service
(Mondays and Thursdays) from London Stansted
throughout June, July and August. The flights, which
actually begin on 3 June and end on 30 August, will
take just over two hours.
Read more here:
www.shephard.co.uk
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Shrimp War:
Faroe Islands blast Canada’s ports ban in
fishing dispute.
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service, Feb
20, 2010
"Canada’s decision last week to bar
Danish-flagged fishing ships from East Coast ports
as punishment for the alleged overfishing of shrimp
has been slammed as “heavy-handed” and
“unacceptable” by the Faroe Islands, whose fleets
were targeted by the measure."
Read more:
http://www.montrealgazette.com
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Shrimp War Continues:
Faroes And Greenland Make Breaking News In Canada
HALIXAX, Canada -
These days the Faroe Islands and Greenland have made
headlines in media all over Canada. Canada followed
through Monday on a threat to close East Coast ports
to fishing vessels from Greenland and the Faroe
Islands after the Danish negotiation delegation
failed to agree to a 334-tonne shrimp quota in
international waters off the Newfoundland coast.
According to Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea
"They (Faroese and Greenlandic Fishing boats)
currently catch more than 10 times what their
allocated quota is... in the interim, our ports will
remain closed," she said after a one-day conference
in Halifax with fisheries ministers from the region.
Here are some of the articles in Canadian Press:
www.vancouversun.com
www.cbc.ca (Feb 14)
www.cbc.ca (Feb 15)
news.aol.ca
ca.news.yahoo.com
www.onenewspage.com
themessagenetwork.biz
gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com
www.vocm.com
www.winnipegfreepress.com
forums.canadiancontent.net
www.torontomassageparlor.com
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Oil-Industry:
Three wells in prospect off the Faroes
Offshore staff, Feb 15, 2010
TORSHAVN, Faroe Islands – "The Faroe Islands’ Minister of
Trade and Industry Johan Dahl has approved extensions for three
hydrocarbon exploration licenses. Included in this agreement is
a firm commitment for an exploration well."
Read the article here:
www.offshore-mag.com
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Shrimp Dispute:
Canada closes ports to Faroe Islands
by Adrian Wyld/TCPI/The Canadian Press, Feb. 14, 2010
"OTTAWA — Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea responds to
a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on
Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009. Canada is
closing its ports to fishing boats from the Faroe Islands and
Greenland because of their refusal to accept international
shrimp quotas, Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea announced
Sunday. The ban takes effect Monday. "We have acted in good
faith for several years to try to resolve this issue, to no
avail," Shea said in a statement.
Read the article here:
www.ctv.ca
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Shrimp Dispute:
Fishing dispute heats up
Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service, 1 Feb 2010
The conflict between Canada and Denmark is heating up over
the northern shrimp. Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea has
blasted Denmark for alleged overfishing in international waters
off the coast of Newfoundland, warning fleets from
Danish-flagged Greenland and Faroe Islands that they'll be
barred from Canadian ports unless they agree -- within two weeks
-- to adhere to a 3,100-tonne shrimp quota for Greenlandic and
Faroese fleets just beyond Canada's 350-kilometre economic zone,
which "sets a dangerous precedent that could impact conservation
of the species," the Canadian government said in a statement
last week.
Read more here:
www.nationalpost.com
Or here:
www.vocm.com
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Shrimp Dispute:
Canada warns Faroes and Greenland on overfishing of
Altantic shrimp
27 Jan 2010 12:00
TheCanadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Gail
Shea, has taken action against overfishing of Division
3L shrimp by Faroese and Greenlandic fishing vessels in
the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
Regulatory Area (NRA).
Read more here:
www.fishnewseu.com
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European Comission:
Fishing Agreement 2010
Jan 19, 2010:
"The European Commission, negotiating on behalf of the European
Union, and the Faroe Islands have agreed on the levels of
fishing possibilities in each other's waters, as well as access
provisions for blue whiting for 2010."
Read more here:
European Comission > Fisheries > Press Corner
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North Atlantic News:
Faroese Ports Highlighted
By Búi Tyril, May 21, 2009
"On the occasion of the Fish Expo Faroes 2009 trade show in
Tórshavn 27-29 May, we're publishing the debut issue of North
Atlantic News. This is a special-focus, magazine-style
publication with the first issue dedicated to coverage of the
Faroese ports and shipping sector."
Download the 2009 Issue here (PDF):
North Atlantic News - 2009 Issue
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Faroe Business Report 2008
"The reports present most of the major developments and
important events, however, as these relate to the products and
services offered by the leading companies highlighted—the
businesses and organizations that together represent the bulk of
Faroe Islands exports and some of the vital services in the
country’s business environment."
Download the report here (PDF):
The International Review of Faroe
Islands Industry and Trade
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Annual Business Report 2007
"The reports present most of the major developments and
important events, however, as these relate to the products and
services offered by the leading companies highlighted—the
businesses and organizations that together represent the bulk of
Faroe Islands exports and some of the vital services in the
country’s business environment."
Download the report here (PDF):
The International Review of Faroe
Islands Industry and Trade:
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Guðrun & Guðrun:
High Fashion Photography Trip To The Faroes
ABC, May 14, 2010:
One of our New York correspondents, Gabrielle Fitzgerald,
recently returned from a trip to the Faroe Islands in
Scandinavia. Gabrielle is also a director on photographic
fashion shoots, and this was certainly a remote location she
visited. The task was to take photos for Faroe Islands most
famous fashion company Guðrun & Guðrun. She writes: "The Faroe
Islands are extraordinary in every way - historic, stunning
landscape & the most generous hospitality I have ever
experienced. We shot under waterfalls, on beaches with black
volcanic sand, in a cathedral from the 12th century and in the
ever-present company of sheep..."
Read more here:
blogs.abc.net.au
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Avantgarde Fashion:
bARBARA i gONGINI Continues To Get Rave Reviews
bARBARA i gONGINI is taking on the catwalks around the world
and continues to impress style reviewers everywhere .
Imagine Lifestyles:
"Her take on fashion, and life is elitist, bold, daring and
eloquent. Barbara í Gongini should make no apologies but rather
continue to design because this is what high society is all
about. Stylists, keep Barbara i Gongini's line in mind for the
next Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Celebrities wear avant-garde and futuristic fashions ever
pushing the artistic envelope and we respect it all. Barbara i
Gongini is looking to expand her collection into high end bags,
jewelry and shoes, you go girl!"
View some more reviews here:
tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com
www.imaginelifestyles.com
coolechicstylefashion.blogspot.com
www.coolhunting.com
afashiontale.thepop.com
wunderbuzz.co.uk
coutequecoute.blogspot.com
www.breathe-design.com
www.lesmads.de
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Copenhagen Fashion Week 2010:
Fashion, Slow and Rare: Gudrun & Gudrun
by Kai Andersen, Feb 13, 2010
"Gudrun & Gudrun’s Autumn/Winter 2010 showing in Copenhagen
reminded me that style doesn’t always originate in the world’s
urban centers, an idea that we should take more to heart in the
Pacific region. Gudrun & Gudrun, in fact, comes from the very
antipodes of the fashion capitals. The label was founded by two
women from the Faroe Islands, a remote chain of islands in the
North Atlantic with a population of just 45,000 with a language
closely related to Old Norse. The label’s unique look comes from
the isolation of the Faroe Islands paired with an occasional
burst of energy from Europe."
Read the article here:
kailahawaii.com
- Hawaiian Netmagazine
And about G&G Kidswear here:
kailahawaii.com/2010/02/13/gudrun_gudrun_kids/
Visit:
www.gudrungudrun.com
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Copenhagen Fashion Week 2010:
bARBARA i gONGINI
"Barbara I Gongini, originally from the Faroe Islands ...
showed her 2nd runway show this season. The collection featured
architectural hair and body paint. The choreography was one of
the most complicated and well executed I've seen in some time.
For this season, Gongini referenced and exploration of 2 and 3
dimension and experimenting with how to create garments using
the fewest incisions possible."
Read more here:
dianepernet.typepad.com
"Barbara i Gongini was an another interesting name ... A
particular ongoing motif is her knitted tulle pieces which were
the talking points of the collection. Based on the knitting
tradition of the Faroe Islands, an agressive volume is created
with endless lengths of tulle. In a largely black collection,
the tulle also provided the only flash of dramatic colour in
fluro pink and bright yellow."
Read more here:
www.dazeddigital.com
Visit:
www.barbaraigongini.dk
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Faroese Designers:
In The Spotlight
26 Oct 2009:
"For the first time, a hand-picked selection of independent, cutting edge
designers from the Faroe Islands are coming to London to showcase their
Spring/Summer 2010 collections."
Read more here:
Sustain Your Style, Fashion Website
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Paradise Found:
Gudrun & Gudrun's otherworldly new
knitwear.
By Loryn Hatch, October 22, 2007:
"It's here that natives Guðrun Ludvig and Guðrun Rógvadótti
brought together fashion-as-we-know-it with the resources and
perspective unique to the eighteen mountainous islands they call
home.
Named Gudrun & Gudrun, Ludvig and Rógvadótti's label made its
debut this fall with a line of inventive, couture-like knitwear
that's as city smart as it is homegrown."
Read more here:
www.refinery29.com
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Football:
Turkey's Besiktas to take on Vikingur
of Faroe Islands for UEFA Europa
Tuesday, 13 July 2010:
Turkey's soccer team Besiktas will take on Vikingur of Faroe
Islands on July 15 in the second round of qualifying games for
the 2010-2011 UEFA Europa League.
Read more at:
www.worldbulletin.net
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Football:
Tamworth Run Rule Over Claus Jørgensen
Coventry Telegraph, Jul 13 2010:
FAROE Islands international Claus Jorgensen will feature for
Tamworth in their first pre-season friendly tonight. The
one-time Coventry City midfielder, who worked with Lambs boss
Gary Mills at the Sky Blues, linked up yesterday for training
and will go into the line-up for tonight’s match at Leamington,
reports the Birmingham Mail.
Read more at:
www.coventrytelegraph.net
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Football:
Atli Aims to make Impact at Dingwall
The Press and Journal, by Stephen Kasiewicz, July 6,
2010:
Ross County can count on the backing of fellow Faroe Islanders,
says new staggie Gregersen. Central defender Atli Gregersen aims
to make a name for himself after earning a move to Ross County.
At 28, Gregersen was a late starter to international football,
winning all eight caps under national team manager Brian Kerr
and played against France, Serbia, Austria and Lithuania in the
Faroes’ World Cup qualification campaign for South Africa. After
two years at Vikingur, Gregersen who has also played for GI
Gota, IF Skjold Birkerod and BK Frem in his homeland, is ready
to meet the challenge of full-time football.
Read more:
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
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Football:
Faroese FA president visits UEFA
The president of the Faroe Islands Football Association
(FSF), Christian Andreasen, has welcomed UEFA's assistance
towards the country's football development. The president of the
Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF), Christian Andreasen,
has visited UEFA's House of European Football in Nyon. Mr
Andreasen and the FSF general secretary Virgar Hvidbro held
discussions with UEFA president Michel Platini, general
secretary Gianni Infantino and national associations director
Theodore Theodoridis.
Read more here:
www.uefa.com
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May 11-16, 2010 - Still Time To Sign Up!
Adventure Race On The Faroe Islands
CoastZone, Thursday
Apr 29, 2010:
Participate in the NACC - North Atlantic CoastZone
Challenge 2010. Experience the unique surroundings on Faroe
Islands in the first adventure race on the islands. The race
takes the teams on journey to the most facinating places on the
Faroe Islands - for instance he world's highest foothill
"Enniberg" with 650 meters of vertical cliff.
Read more here:
http://uk.coastzone.fo/nacc/
Register your team >>
Click HERE Info
Facts:
Date: May 11th 2010 - May 16th 2010
Form: Stage race over 4 days, aprox. 300 km
Teams: Mix teams of 3 persons
Disciplines: Orienteering, running/trekking, MTB, sailing,
swimming, rapelling, via ferratta and others.
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Football:
Old friends Reunited In The Faroe Islands
Irish Times, Apr 28, 2010:
Former St Patrick's Athletic manager Johnny McDonnell has
been appointed as assistant-coach of the Faroe Islands.
McDonnell will work alongside former Republic of Ireland manager
Brian Kerr in the north Atlantic outpost.
Read more here:
www.irishtimes.com
McDonnell To Team Up With Kerr Again As Assistant With The
Faroe Islands
By Emmet Malone, The Irish Times Apr 28, 2010:
INTERNATIONAL NEWS: FORMER ST Patrick’s Athletic manager
Johnny McDonnell will head out to the Faroe Islands this weekend
in order to meet some of the national team’s players and
officials after being recruited by Brian Kerr to work as his
assistant. The 45-year-old was in buoyant form yesterday as he
contemplated the prospect of starting his new job, announcing he
was “looking to learn a bit of Faroese off the internet”.
Read more here:
www.irishtimes.com
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Football:
Gunnar Is The Beckham Of The Faroes
By Stuart Brennan, Manchester Evening News, Apr 27,
2010:
Gunnar Nielsen's dad missed his son's historic debut for City by
just five minutes. And now proud Finn Nielsen is hoping that the
ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull does not
stop him from seeing his first start against Aston Villa on
Saturday.
Read more here:
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Football
Faroes Boss Kerr Confident Of Gunnar Nielsen's Ability
by Elizabeth Hudson, BBC, Monday Apr 26, 2010
Nielsen faces a stiff examination against Aston Villa and
Spurs
Faroe Islands manager Brian Kerr believes that goalkeeper Gunnar
Nielsen would be able to rise to the challenge of playing for
Manchester City. The 23-year-old played the last 17 minutes of
Saturday's 0-0 draw with Arsenal after first-choice Shay Given
dislocated his shoulder. City have asked for permission to bring
in a keeper on an emergency loan but Kerr is confident of
Nielsen's ability. "I believe he will grasp the chance if he is
given it," he told BBC Sport. "He has prepared a long time for
this and I 'm confident that he would handle the situation well.
It is a big opportunity for him."
Read more here:
news.bbc.co.uk
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Football:
Given Injury Thrusts Unknown Nielsen Into The Spotlight For
City's Charge For Fourth
By Mark Fleming, The Independent, Apr 26, 2010:
The history of goalkeeping in the Faroe Islands is
dominated by one man, or rather one woolly bobble hat. Jens
Martin Knudsen, a fork-lift truck driver at a fish factory,
famously wore the ridiculous headgear in 65 international
appearances. Now Gunnar Nielsen, 23, has a chance to give his
homeland a little more credibility as he takes centre stage in
Manchester City's bid to reach the Champions League. The club's
owners made a top four finish the minimum requirement this
season, but for all the many millions they have spent in the
past two years their chances of reaching the Champions League
could now depend on a goalkeeper not even rated the best in the
Faroe Islands.
Read more here:
www.independent.co.uk
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Football:
Manchester City's Champions League Hopes Rest With Unknown
Goalkeeper
By Neil Tingle/PA, The Times Online, Sunday Apr 25, 2010:
Manchester City’s scramble to finish fourth in the Premier
League may now lie in the hands of a 23-year old goalkeeper from
the Faroe Islands. Gunnar Nielsen, who came on as a substitute
for the injured Shay Given at Arsenal on Saturday night, had
been on the books at Blackburn and Motherwell without making an
appearance. He has won two international caps and played five
games on loan at Wrexham in the Blue Square Premier before
getting injured. He became the first player from the Faroes to
appear in the Premier League. Given, far right, has a suspected
disclocated shoulder and his deputy, Stuart Taylor, is
recovering from a knee injury.
Read more here:
www.timesonline.co.uk
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Running:
Signup To Tórshavn Marathon Sept 5
Tórshavn Marathon Sept. 5 now open for signups. Rugged and
rural, the Faroe Islands make a spectacular setting for the
annual Tórshavn Marathon. Inaugurated in 2003, the event has
rapidly become renowned, with the islands' beautiful, remote
location attracting an intrepid community of adventurous
runners.
Facts:
When: 5 Sep 2010 (annual)
Where: Faroe Islands
Cost: Marathon: DKK400; Half-marathon DKK300
Time: Starting time: 1pm
Signup at:
www.torshavnmarathon.com/uk/
Read more at:
www.whatsonwhen.com
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Football On The Net:
Matters Of Size
WSC 213 (When Saturday Comes):
This is a column written in 2004 but not much has changed:
"Ian Plenderleith trawls the web for minnows and finds that the
smallest European football associations and their clubs are,
like their teams out on the pitch, willing but not always
particularly able. Like it or not, small and mostly useless
European footballing nations are now an integral part of the
game’s landscape. This month’s column tackles the highly charged
question that many have asked but few have been able to answer –
can countries such as Luxembourg and Liechtenstein (Ed. and the
Faroe Islands) compete on the web any better than they do on the
field?" Unfortunately not...
Read the column here:
www.wsc.co.uk
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Football:
The Lands that FIFA Forgot
Book review: Outcasts! by Steve Menary -
Reviewed by Jonathan Wilson in WSC 253, March 2008 :
"Why does FIFA refuse to aknowledge Greenland as a member?
In political terms, Greenland has the same status as the Faroe
Islands, enjoying self-rule within the Danish Commonwealth. In
football terms, though, they do not. The Faroes are a member of
both FIFA and UEFA, Greenland are not, and the only reason is
that they applied later. As Gibraltar stepped up its claims for
full membership in the late Nineties, UEFA changed their rules
to include only those countries “recognised by the United
Nations as an independent state”. "
Read the whole review.
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Football:
The Premier League in the Faroes
Nordic Football News, Thu, Mar 04, 2010:
The Faroes founded their own Premier
League, now known as Vodafonedeildin, in 1942. The league boasts
ten clubs and operates off a system whereby two teams are
relegated and promoted every season. Lets have a closer look at
the teams that compete in this league and face the endless task
of trying to woo bigger crowds away from watching English
football on their armchairs and into their stadiums.
Read the
article here:
www.nordicfootball.info
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Football:
Kerr Seeks To Revive Tiny Islands
Nordic Football News, Thu, Feb 11, 2010:
It`s hard running a national football team drawn from a
windswept archipelago, marooned halfway between Scotland and
Iceland, with a population that does not succeed 50,000.... Kerr
(Ed.: Brian Kerr, coach of the national football team) is
looking forward to ties with Northern Ireland and Estonia,
especially the former as his father was born there. The Irishman
is well aware of what goals he has and how he can achieve them.
As one of the six nations in the bottom seeds, he is aiming to
emulate Liechtenstein who have played their way into the next
pot up “The target would be to be in the second lowest pot next
time around. To do that will be hard, but I feel we can build on
the last qualifiers where we won a game and pushed France hard
at home”. “The under 21`s have got eight points so far so we
have the promise of some good players coming through” said Kerr.
Read more here:
www.nordicfootball.info
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Football:
Faroe Islands in group C in the UEFA 2012
Follow the Uefa Euro 2012 qualifying draw - as it
happened. Read this article about all the plastic
ball-by-plastic ball action as Europe's national sides learned
their fate in Warsaw. Read here:
www.guardian.co.uk/football
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Football:
New Boy Can Make A Faroe Impression
by Neil Farrington, Sunday Sun, Feb 7 2010
Unkown Newcastle new boy Joan Simun Edmundsson has been
backed to make an impact on Tyneside. Faroe Islands starlet
Edmundsson is understood to be arriving on loan at St James’
Park from his local club B68 Toftir until the end of the season
with a view to a permanent move. And Faroe Islands’ national
coach Brian Kerr believes the 18-year-old forward can earn a
long-term stay in the North East.
Read more at:
www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport
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Animals:
The Faroe Pony
The Equinest, July 14, 2010:
The bloodlines of the ponies on the Faeroe
islands are one of the oldest and purest equine
breeds on the planet and they have not been
influenced by outside blood. Also called the Faeroes
Pony & the Faeroe Island Horse, The only other breed
comparable in age & purity of the Faroe Pony is the
Icelandic Horse.
Read more at:
www.theequinest.com
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Food:
Etika - Japanese Food From The Land Of The
Faroes
IN & OUT GUIDE, review by Julie Fjeldstad,
Friday, May 28, 2010:
Etika is a new restaurant in the centre of
Copenhagen. The name is made up of Eti, which means
‘to eat’ in the Faroe Islands (there is another
Etika restaurant in the Faroese capital of
Torshavn), and Ka, which is what the Japanese put at
the end of a sentence to form a question. So, if you
speak both languages and score well in Mensa tests,
you might translate Etika into ‘Do you eat?’
Facts:
Etika
Ny Østergade 14
1101 Cph K
Open: Mon-Wed 11.00-24.00 - Thu 11.00-01.00 -
Fri-Sat 11.00-02.00
Bookings & enquiries: 3336 5300
Takeaway: 33365400,
etika@etikataste.com.
Read more at:
www.cphpost.dk
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Faroese Police In Dublin, Ireland:
Shhh! Don't Tell Criminals That Islands' Police
Are On Holiday
Independent.ie, May 17, 2010:
DON'T tell the criminals -- that was the running
joke as half of an entire police force descended on
Dublin for a busman's holiday. More than 50 members
of the Faroe Islands' police force were in town to
meet their garda equivalents and enjoy the sights
over the weekend. Members of the force, which is a
subsidiary of the Danish police, traditionally take
an international trip every year. But to get to
Dublin they had to rent a jet as there were no
direct flights. "We didn't know much about Dublin,
so when we got an opportunity to rent the plane, we
went for it," said traffic officer Karl Leonsson
(37). They also took the opportunity to teach the
Irish a little about the Faroe Islands, including
joining a trad music session.
Read more here:
www.independent.ie
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Health Matters:
Faroes Susceptible To Deadly Illness
RC NEWS, May 17, 2010:
Islanders suffer from rare genetic illness in
far greater numbers than people in the rest of the
world. A deadly genetic disease that is normally
very rare is apparently hitting people on the Faroe
Islands hard, according to new research. The illness
is called carnitine transporter deficiency and
typically affects only around 1 in 50,000-100,000
people. In Denmark only two Danes have been
diagnosed with the disease in the last 30 years. But
on the Faeroe Islands health authorities have
already found nearly 100 people with the condition
in just the past few months.
Read more here:
www.cphpost.dk
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Police Matters:
Faeroese Police Chief Stabbed At Courthouse
RC NEWS, MAY 05, 2010:
Prosecutor and deputy police commissioner Finn Ougaard was
stabbed on Tuesday at the Faeroe Islands’ state courthouse in
Torshavn by a 40-year-old ex-criminal, reported Ekstra Bladet
newspaper. Ougaard, 59, was on his way out of the courthouse
when he was accosted by the man, who said something to him
before stabbing the prosecutor in the left thigh with a
10cm-long knife.
Read more here:
www.cphpost.dk
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Stranded in India:
Ghordan Rajani - The Good Samaritan
By Khalid A-H Ansari, Mid-day, Apr 25, 2010:
Mumbai - Unable to return home in the Faroes Islands
because of the chaos caused by volcano Eyjafjallajokull, Gordhan
Kanayalal Rajani, the first doctor of Indian origin in the
history of the remote Danish colony near Iceland, has turned
personal misfortune into a blessing by alleviating pain and
suffering in Mumbai. The affable Rajani (GK to his legion of
friends) had rushed recently to Mumbai with his charming wife
Gudrun for the funeral of his brother. Stranded in Mumbai and
waiting for air traffic to his distant northerly home to resume,
the 76-year old orthopaedic surgeon, whose knowledge of general
medicine and surgery is encyclopedic, has been playing Good
Samaritan and providing the healing touch, free of charge, to a
large number of patients here.
Read the whole article here:
www.mid-day.com
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Chaos Caused By Icelandic Volcano:
Stranded Faeroese Leader Heads Home By Ferry
Associated Press Apr 17, 2010 - With planes grounded, the
only way the leader of the Faeroe Islands can get back home is
an 18-hour ferry ride (Ed. correct.: 33 hours). Premier Kaj Leo
Holm Johannesen was in Copenhagen Friday to celebrate the 70th
birthday of Denmark's Queen Margrethe, who is also the head of
state of the Faeroe Islands, a small archipelago in the North
Atlantic.
Read the article:
www.etaiwannews.com
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Mattanza (Tuna killing) in Sicily |
Killing Giants Of The Sea:
Contenious Heritage And The Politics Of Culture
By Rob Van Ginkel, University of Amsterdam, Journal of
Mediterranean Studies, 2005 ISSN: 1016-3476 Vol. 15, No. 1: 71
For many, tradition refers to a tangible or intangible
cultural heritage that needs to be cherished and supported. But
there are also traditions that are heavily contested with strong
pleas from outsiders to abandon them. In both cases, traditions
are usually enmeshed in cultural politics. This article will
focus on the time-honoured Sicilian tuna catching procedure
known as la mattanza and on the customary tradition of the
grindadráp in the Faroe Islands, a pilot whale drive that is
said to constitute an inalienable part of the islanders’
culture. This whale drive has met with international resistance,
while the
mattanza has not aroused comparable opposition.
Read the article here (PDF-file):
home.medewerker.uva.nl
View the Mattanza here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWn-8Apy7KQ
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People:
Canvas is still sailing for Petaluma artist
By Chris Smith, Sunday, March 21, 2010
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT - Petaluma-based Faroese artist Hans
Skalagard is an internationally renowned painter of sailing
ships. Passionate and prolific Petaluma artist Hans Skalagard
loves tall-masted sailing ships, and not in the idealized and
imaginary way that a young boy might. This talkative old salt
knows ships as only a tried seaman and progeny of generations of
Vikings could. The magnificent oil paintings that fill his and
wife Mignon's little ranch home and that grace galleries and
private collections around the world honor the ships through
accuracy and detail that presents them as they really are, or
were.
Read the article:
www.petaluma360.com
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History:
The Story Of The Sunken Ship SS Sauternes - "Jólaskipið"
"On the late afternoon of Sunday 7th December, 1941, the
Merchant Navy steamship SS Sauternes was lost off the Faroe
Islands in the North Atlantic and all 25 crew and passengers
died ... The December visit of the ship was eagerly anticipated.
It was called by the locals Jolaskipid , or ‘the Christmas
Ship', because as well as carrying 3,000 gallons of petrol,
garrison supplies, 22,000 Danish Kroner, minted in Scotland
because it was impossible to get coinage from Copenhagen, it was
also on this December trip carrying Christmas puddings, Scotch
Whisky, and Christmas gifts."
Read the rest of the story here:
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as it was told by the Reverend Canon Dr David Kennedy at the
Sermon at Durham Cathedral, Remembrance Sunday Service, preached
on Sunday 11th November 2007.
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Funny Story About:
Faroese Drunken Sailors in 1972
Shetland Times March 10, 1972:
"Faroese terrify Unst families. A detachment from the RAF
station at Saxa Vord rushed to the aid of Unst lightkeeper's
families in the early hours of friday morning when three drunken
Faroese fishermen created havoc at the shore station at
Burrafirth."
Read the
whole article in Shetland Times here.
Read an
article in Scottish Daily Express about the same incident here.
Read a blog about the incident here:
ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com
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Opposing Views:
Whale Slaughter Claim Misleading
Quote from an Article on the website Opposing Views >
Society > Animal Rights:
"The recent video depicting the slaughter of long-finned
pilot whales in the Faroe Islands was misleading in terms of
impact and incorrectly asserted that this was a "rite of
passage" for the island's teens."
Read the whole article here:
www.opposingviews.com
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Los Angeles Times:
The Pilot Whale In The Living Room
By Catherine Watson, June 5 2009:
"The magazine (National Geographic Traveler) called them
"authentic, unspoiled and likely to remain so." But to outsiders
like me, one tradition doesn't fit the image. Call it the whale
in the living room, or the grindadrap, the periodic harvest of
long-finned pilot whales."
Added to the article are also some beautiful photos of the Faroe
Islands.
Read more here:
Los Angeles Times > Travel Section
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The Faroe Isles:
Open House At Puffin Central
By Julie Davidson, 20 Aug 2001
The Faroes, with their wonderfully vivid birdlife and unyielding
landscape, weave a simple magic on Julie Davidson: "NOT a nice
bird," says Inga, as we teeter along a tightrope of turf on the
cliffs of Mykinesholmur. "It pukes on you." Thus the fulmar is
dismissed with distaste. We won't risk invading its colonies,
which it reasonably defends by spitting evil-smelling oil at
intruders, because we have other fish to fry and birds to toast
- both areas of expertise on the Faroe Islands. Inga and I are
on one of the great seabird walks of the world."
Read more here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/
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Politiken:
Færøerne udpeget som de dejligste øer i verden
Af Søren Astrup, 31. okt 2007:
"Ingen andre øer overgår Færøerne i herlighed, fastslår det amerikanske
rejsetidsskrift National Geographic Traveler."
Gå til:
Politiken, Tjek
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Volcano News:
Eyfjallajøkull Ash Found On The Faroe Islands
July 7, 2010:
Ash from Eyjafjallajokull volcano has been found in the
snow on Sornfelli mountain on the Faroe Islands, about 670 km
(420 miles) sourtheast of Eyjafjallajokull. Jarðfeingi (The
Faroese Earth and Energy Directorate) has been collecting ash
samples over the past week for further studies.
Watch the video here:
www.volcanofacts.org
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Volcano News:
Ash Cloud Clears, Sparing Europe
During Holiday Rush - Except The Faroes
By Omar Valdimarsson and Steve Rothwell May 13, 2010:
Bloomberg Business Week - Volcanic ash that’s disrupted air
travel in Europe for almost a month is clearing as the eruption
in Iceland loses power and winds change course, keeping airports
open at the start of one the region’s busiest travel periods.
Europe should be able to relax over the weekend, with the
exception of the Faroe Islands and Scotland, which have to be on
guard.
Read more here:
www.businessweek.com
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Volcano News:
Iceland's Volcano Sends More Ash Towards Europe
The Buzz Break, Saturday May 08, 2010:
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano threatened
European skies with a new ash cloud Friday raising the risk of
more flight cancellations, officials said. The cloud caused
Ireland to shut its airspace from 2300 GMT on Thursday to 1200
GMT Friday, the third closure in as many days.
The Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, also shut airspace from
Thursday night until at least 0000 GMT Saturday.
Read more here:
www.kilitsky.info
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Food:
The World's Best Restaurant is: NOMA!
Raving Ravens, Apr 25, 2010:
NOMA, a restaurant located in Bryggen, the North-Atlantic
culture center in Copenhagen, was just chosen the world's best
restaurant. The British magazine "Restaurants" chooses every
year World's 50 Best Restaurants and today, the list for the
year 2010 was made public. Restaurant number 1, the World's Best
restaurant is NOMA. NOMA stands for "NOrdisk MAd" or Nordic Food
and specializes in Nordic food heritage, using mainly
ingredients from Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands...
Read more here:
www.ravingravens.com
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Volcanic Ash Cloud Consequences:
Increased Ferry Traffic To And From Iceland
IceNews, Daily News, Apr 21, 2010:
An unusually large number of people are booked on the
Faroese ferry Norrøna to and from Iceland due to flight
restrictions caused by the Eyjafjalljokull volcanic ash cloud.
Many people who had planned to fly have instead decided to take
the ferry. Some 550 passengers arrived in Iceland with the
Norrøna ferry this morning.
Read the article here:
wdpost.com
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Terrible Plane Crash:
Prime Minister Of The Faroe Islands Sent His Condolences To
The Poles
By Marcin Michalski, Apr 11, 2010:
As wrote Portal.fo, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands,
Kaj Leo Johannesen, expressed the heartfelt condolences after a
plane crash killed the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, his
wife Maria and 94 other Polish people, including the army chief
of staff, the navy chief commander, the governor of the national
bank, leading historians, the former President of Poland in
Exile, Humas Rights Defender, representative of churches, Katyń
families, other associations and eight crew.
Read more at:
havnar.blogspot.com
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Vikings:
Greenland Vikings Had Celtic Blood
RC NEWS - Just like in the Faroes, Norsemen who settled in
southern Greenland carried more Celtic than Nordic blood – but
they were still decidedly Scandinavian. An analysis of DNA from
a Viking gravesite near a 1000 year-old church in southern
Greenland shows that those buried there had strong Celtic
bloodlines, reported science website Videnskab.dk.
Read more here:
www.cphpost.dk
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Britain Claims Rockall - Again
BBC- Tuesday, 2 March 2010:
BBC - Surrounded by rich fishing grounds and oil reserves,
Rockall is about 25 metres wide at its base and stands 70 feet
tall. It is a disputed territory with three other countries -
Ireland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands - also claiming
sovereignty of the area."We landed [on Rockall] in 1955... We
raised the flag and put the Queen's plaque on there claiming it
for Britain and the disputes been going on continuously ever
since," said Andy. Andy Strangeway sailing towards Rockall in
2008."While researching this it came to my attention that the
Queen's plaque is no longer on there. So we obviously need it
back up there as soon as possible." Read the article here:
news.bbc.co.uk
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