Saksun | |
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Village | |
View of Saksun from the lake | |
Coordinates: 62°14′56″N 7°10′33″W / 62.24889°N 7.17583°W | |
State | ![]() |
Constituent country | ![]() |
Island | Streymoy |
Municipality | Sunda Municipality |
Population (1 January 2006) | |
• Total | 9 |
Time zone | GMT |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (EST) |
Postal code | FO 436 |
Climate | ET |
Saksun is a village near the northwest coast of the Faroese island of Streymoy, in Sunda Municipality.
Geography
[edit]Saksun lies in the bottom of what used to be an inlet of the sea, surrounded by high mountains. The inlet formed a good deep natural harbour, until a storm blocked it with sand. The old harbour become an inaccessible seawater lagoon, only accessible by small boats on high tide.
Facilities
[edit]The village has a heritage farm called Dúvugarðar www.duvugardar.fo and a church. The church was originally built in Tjørnuvík, but in 1858 it was disassembled, carried over the mountains and reassembled in Saksun. The Museum occupies a seventeenth-century farm house called Dúvugarður. The house belongs to the Dúvugarður farm, still an active sheep farm with approximately 710 ewes.
Gallery
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Church.
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Interior of church
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Church
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The old farm
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Saksun, Postverk Føroya
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Down to the beach
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Saksun
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West coast
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Beach
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Faroeislands.dk: Saksun Images and description of all cities on the Faroe Islands.
- Guide to Faroe Islands: Saksun