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Sandvík

  

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Name: Sandvík Municipality: Hvalbiar (list of municipalities) Leave cursor on image to see image text 
Population 113 (01.01.06) Football team: -  
Zip: FO 860 Rowing Club: -  
Location: N61°38'16 W6°55'19      
         

Sandvík is the northern-most village on Suðuroy.
It is connected to the road system of the island through a 1500 meters long tunnel located pretty high in the mountains.
As the name implies there is a sandy beach in Sandvík.

There is a small museum in the centre of the village. It is located in a traditional Faeroese house from 1860.

A narrow road leads from Sandvík to the west coast. The nature here is magnificent. Vertical bird-cliffs form the coast here. Ásmundarstakkur is a 97 meters high detached rock on which thousands of puffins and other seabirds are nesting.

In the Icelandic saga, Faereyingasaga, Sandvík is the place where Sigmundur Brestisson is murdered after his long swim from Skúvoy in an attempt to flee from Tróndur i Gøtu.

In 1349 the place was deserted. The inhabitants were all killed by the plague ‘The Black Death’.
In 1816 the place was inhabited again.

The church in Sandvík was built in Froðba in 1840. Later it was moved to Tvøroyri and finally in 1908 it was
moved to Sandvík.

Sandvík was actually called Hvalvík (Bay of Whales) until 1913. The inhabitants changed the name to Sandvík because they were annoyed by the fact that their mail was confused with mail to Hvalvík on the island Streymoy.

 
         
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