Velbastaður
Velbastaður is a village on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. It is a part of Tórshavn Municipality and is considered among the oldest settlements in the islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Argir Stadium and Hests kirkja.
Argir Stadium
Stadium
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Inni í Vika, currently known as Skansi Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-use stadium on the sport site in Argir, Faroe Islands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Argja Bóltfelag. Argir Stadium is situated 3 km northeast of Velbastaður.
Hests kirkja
Church
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hests kirkja is a church, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Velbastaður.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hestur and Kirkjubøur.
Hestur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hestur is an island in the central Faroe Islands, to the west of Streymoy and the south of Koltur. Hestur means horse in Faroese. On the west coast is a guillemot colony. Hestur is situated 3½ km southwest of Velbastaður.
Kirkjubøur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Streymoy is the largest of the Faroe Islands. The 24,700 inhabitants make up nearly half of the population of the Faroe Islands. Kirkjubøur is situated 4½ km southeast of Velbastaður.
Argir
Village
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Argir is a village in the Faroe Islands. Argir most likely takes its name from Old Irish airge, which means summer pasture; several placenames in Faroe carry the same name with this meaning. Argir is situated 4½ km east of Velbastaður.
Velbastaður
- Type: Village with 264 residents
- Description: settlement on Streymoy, Faroe Islands
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tórshavn Municipality, Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.98284° or 61° 58′ 58″ northLongitude
-6.85522° or 6° 51′ 19″ westPopulation
264Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)United Nations Location Code
FO VBROpen location code
9CHMX4MV+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023824OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Velbastaður” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Velbastaður”
- Catalan: “Velbastaður”
- Danish: “Velbastadur”
- Danish: “Velbastaður”
- Danish: “Velbestad”
- Dutch: “Velbastadur”
- Dutch: “Velbastaður”
- Faroese: “Velbastaður”
- French: “Velbastaður”
- German: “Velbastadur”
- German: “Velbastaður”
- German: “Velbestad”
- Hungarian: “Velbastaður”
- Irish: “Velbastaður”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Velbastaður”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Velbestad”
- Norwegian: “Velbastaður”
- Persian: “ولبستتور”
- Polish: “Velbastaður”
- Romanian: “Velbastadur”
- Romanian: “Velbastaður”
- Spanish: “Velbastaður”
- Swedish: “Velbastadur”
- Swedish: “Velbastaður”
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