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The Faroes In Media Around The World

What do journalists and others write about the Faroes in Foreign Press?

Articles About Travelling To The Faroe Islands
Fantastic Faroes
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

Jonathan Clark in Mykines
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

Sea Stacks in the Faroe Islands
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

Tinganes, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
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

 
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

The Lighthouse In the Bird Island, Mykines
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

Copyright: Stephen Metcalf, New York Times

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

Copyright: Catherine Watson 2009
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

Copyright: Tony Wheeler, The Independent
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

Copyright: Rob Mason
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

Copyright: Ruaridh Nicoll
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

Copyright: Sarah Crown
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

 
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

Map of Faroe Islands Northern Part
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,

Copyright: Páll Stéfansson
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

Faroe Islands Travel - Tórshavn
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

Articles About Faroe Islands In General, Economical And Political Matters
Faroese Governmental Bank's annual report on Faroese economy
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)

Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Danish Prime Minister
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
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

Tindhólmur
Denmark.dk:
About the Faroes

Here is a series of very informative articles about the Faroe Islands:

(Source: www.denmark.dk)

Elin Brimheim Heinesen 
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.

Funningur
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

European Union Flag
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

Articles About Faroese Art And Culture
NOTE! For more articles specifically about Music - go to Music News
Ung í Føroyum 2010
Drós Reinert Joensen vocal and Synnøva Magnussen guitar.
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

Film by Bjarki Thomsen: A Bad Day
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.

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

Copyright: Murdo Macleod
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

Atlantic Rhapsody by Katrin Ottarsdóttir
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

Articles About Faroese Business Matters
West Phoenix Rig drilling in the Faroes
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

Deep Water Drilling
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

West Phoenix Rig on it's way to the Anne Marie well in Faroe Islands
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

Maquerel
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

Hanne Harlem, Non-Executive Director Faroe Islands 
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

Offshore Magazine July 2010
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

Gus Etchegary
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

 
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

Offshore Magazine April 2010
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

 
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

Faroe Business Report 2010
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

 
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

Haddock
Haddock
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

Boston Seafood Show 2010
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.

Read more here:
seafoodsource.com
Bakkafrost
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

Jørgen Niclasen, Foreign Minister in the Faroe Islands
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/

Atlantic Airways
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

Northern Shrimp
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

Shrimps
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

Offshore Magazine
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

Canadian Minister of Fisheries Gail Shea
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

Gail Shea - Minister of Fishery in Canada
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

Prawn
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

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

North Atlantic News
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

Frontpage of Faroe Business Reprot 2008
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

Annual Business Report 2007
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:

Articles About Faroese Fashion
Guðrun & Guðrun
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

bARBARA i gONGINI - Spring Summer Collection 2010
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

Guðrun & Guðrun: Slow and Rare
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

bARBARA i gONGINI
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

 
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

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

Articles About Faroese Sports
Turkey's Football Club Besiktas
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

 Claus Jørgensen, Faroese footballer
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

Atli Gregersen, Faroese footballer plays in Scotland
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

Michel Platini and Christian Andreasen
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

 NACC - North Atlantic Coastzone Challenge
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.

Johnny McDonnell, Brian Kerr assistant
Brian Kerr, Coach for the national football team
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

 Gunnar Nielsen Man City Goalkeeper
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

Gunnar Nielsen Man United Goal Keeper
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

Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese goalkeeper playing for Manchester City in Premiere League
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

Gunnar Nielsen Man City Goalkeeper
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

Tórshavn Marathon
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

WSC 213 - 2004
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

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.

 
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

Brian Kerr, Coach for the national football team
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

UEFA 2010 Draw
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

Jóan Símun Edmundsson
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

Articles About Other Faroese Matters
Faroe Pony
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

Etika - Faroese-Japanese restaurant
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

Temble Bar, Dublin, Ireland
Temple Bar, Dublin
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

 
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

 
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

Stranded passengers in India
Stranded passengers at airport in India
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

Kej Leo Holm Johannesen, Prime Minister
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

Mattanza in Sicily
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

Hans Skalagard
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

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:
... 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.

Shetland Times March 10, 1972
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

 
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

Copyright: Catherine Watson
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

 
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/

Articles In Other Languages Than English
Copyright: Thomas Broberg, Politiken
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

Other Articles
Ash from Eyjafjallajøkull found on the Faroes
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

 
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

Ash Cloud from Eyjafjallajøkull
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

 Bryggen - the North-Atlantic Culture Center in Copenhagen
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

Faroese ferry Norrøna
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

Kaj Leo Johannesen, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
Prime Minister Kaj Leo Johannesen
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

Viking Settlement In Greenland
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

Andy Strangeway - Claiming Rock All
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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Lýs eisini við tínari síðu

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Faroe Islands Review 2010 - Copyrigth: © Elin Brimheim Heinesen - Last edited:  24-04-2010  

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