Inner Hebrides to Faroe Islands

BBC programme from the series "Coast"

The documentary contains historical documentation about British soldiers on the Faroes during World War II and stunning footage of the impressive west coast of the Faroes.
You can watch the whole programme or go straight to the part about the Faroes at 00:43:00.

Copyright: BBC Coast, 2009

Operation Valentine: British occupation of the Faroe Islands in the Second World War
Location: Faroe Islands
Presenter: Neil Oliver

Neil journeys far north into the vast Atlantic to explore the staggeringly beautiful landscape of the Faroes: 18 separate islands with nearly 700 miles of coastline. The Faroes are home to fewer than 50,000 people, who are never more than three miles from the sea. In 1940, when the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway, Britain feared the Germans were aiming to occupy the Faroes to use as a key U-boat base, so they decided to get in there first. On April 11th, 1940, Winston Churchill announced that the Danish territory of Faroe was under British control. Far from resisting this occupation, Neil uncovers the romances that developed between some of the islanders and British soldiers during the aptly named ‘Operation Valentine’.

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