Vágar Airport

Vágar Airport is the only airport in the , and is located 1 NM east of the village of , on the island of and 46 km west of the capital . It is the main operating base for Faroese flag carrier Atlantic Airways.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in the Faroe Islands
  • Also known as: “EKVG”, “FAE”, “Soervaag / Vagar”, “Vagar”, and “Vagar Airport”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sørvágsvatn and Vørðufelli.

Lake
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Leitisvatn, sometimes called , is the largest lake in the . It is situated on the island of , between the municipalities of and Vágar.

Peak
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is a mountain overlooking the village of on the . Its height is 284 metres above sea level. It is situated between Húsadalur, Vága, Vatnsdalur, and close to Klovin.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sørvágur and Vatnsoyrar.

Village
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is a village at the landward end of fjord on the island of Vágar in the Faroe Islands.It is the largest village in .

Village
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is a village founded in 1921 in the middle of the of Vagar. , being created in 1921, is one of the youngest settlements in the Faroes.

Village
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, is a village in the Faroe Islands on . It has been a municipality until 1 January 2009 when it fused with into Vága kommuna. Located on the south coast of the island of , is the largest town on this Faroese island.

Vágar Airport

Latitude
62.06402° or 62° 3′ 51″ north
Longitude
-7.27616° or 7° 16′ 34″ west
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
IATA airport code
FAE
ICAO airport code
EKVG
United Nations Location Code
FO FAE
Open location code
9CJJ3P7F+JG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 482873673
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
2610818
Wiki­data ID
Q371471
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Vágar Airport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطار فاغار”
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu de Vágar”
  • Catalan: “aeroport de Vágar”
  • Catalan: “Aeroport de Vágar”
  • Chinese: “沃格机场”
  • Chinese: “沃格機場”
  • Croatian: “Zračna luka Vágar”
  • Czech: “Letiště Vágar”
  • Danish: “Vágar Floghavn”
  • Danish: “Vagar Lufthavn”
  • Danish: “Vágar Lufthavn”
  • Danish: “Vágur Lufthavn”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven Vagar”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven Vágar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤاجار ايرپورت”
  • Esperanto: “Flughaveno de Vágar”
  • Faroese: “Vága Floghavn”
  • Finnish: “Vagarin lentoasema”
  • Finnish: “Vágarin lentoasema”
  • Finnish: “Vagarin lentokenttä”
  • Finnish: “Vágarin lentokenttä”
  • French: “Aeroport de Vagar”
  • French: “Aéroport de Vagar”
  • French: “aéroport de Vágar”
  • French: “Aéroport de Vágar”
  • French: “FAE”
  • French: “VAGAR”
  • German: “EKVG”
  • German: “FAE”
  • German: “Flughafen Vagar”
  • German: “Flughafen Vágar”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה ואוגר”
  • Hungarian: “Vágari repülőtér”
  • Icelandic: “Vágaflugvöllur”
  • Icelandic: “Vogaflugvöllur”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Vágar”
  • Indonesian: “EKVG”
  • Indonesian: “FAE”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Vagar”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Vágar”
  • Japanese: “ヴァガール空港”
  • Japanese: “ヴォーアル空港”
  • Kazakh: “Вагар (әуежай)”
  • Kazakh: “Вагар”
  • Korean: “보가르 공항”
  • Latvian: “Voaras lidosta”
  • Lithuanian: “Vagaro oro uostas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vagaro tarptautinis oro uostas”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Vagar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “EKVG”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vága Floghavn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vagar lufthavn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vágar lufthavn”
  • Norwegian: “Vágar lufthavn”
  • Persian: “EKVG”
  • Persian: “FAE”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه واگار”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Vagar”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Vágar”
  • Polish: “Vagar Airport”
  • Polish: “Vágar Airport”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Vágar”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Vágar”
  • Russian: “Вагар”
  • Russian: “Воар”
  • Serbian: “Aerodrom Vagar”
  • Serbian: “Аеродром Вагар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aerodrom Vagar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zračna luka Vágar”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Vagar”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Vágar”
  • Spanish: “EKVG”
  • Swedish: “Torshamn Vágar flygplats”
  • Swedish: “Vága Floghavn”
  • Swedish: “Vagar airport”
  • Swedish: “Vágar airport”
  • Swedish: “Vágar flygplats”
  • Swedish: “Vagarflygplatsen”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Вагар”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи вогор”
  • Turkish: “Vágar Havaalanı”
  • Turkish: “Vágar Havalimanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Вагар”
  • Vietnamese: “Phi trường Vágar”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay Vágar”
  • Welsh: “Maes Awyr Vágar”

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