Vágar Airport
Vágar Airport is the only airport in the Faroe Islands, and is located 1 NM east of the village of Sørvágur, on the island of Vágar and 46 km west of the capital Tórshavn. It is the main operating base for Faroese flag carrier Atlantic Airways.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in the Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Aeroport de Vagar”, “Aéroport de Vagar”, “Aeroporto di Vagar”, “Aeropuerto de Vagar”, “EKVG”, “FAE”, “Flughafen Vagar”, “Luchthaven Vagar”, “Phi trường Vágar”, “Port lotniczy Vagar”, “Soervaag / Vagar”, “Vagar”, “VAGAR”, “Vagar airport”, “Vagar Airport”, “Vágar airport”, “Vágar Floghavn”, “Vagar lufthavn”, “Vagar Lufthavn”, “Vagarflygplatsen”, “Vagarin lentoasema”, “Vagarin lentokenttä”, “Vágarin lentokenttä”, “Vágur Lufthavn”, “Воар”, and “ヴァガール空港”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sørvágsvatn and Vørðufelli.
Sørvágsvatn
Lake
Leitisvatn, sometimes called Sørvágsvatn, is the largest lake in the Faroe Islands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sørvágur and Vatnsoyrar.
Vatnsoyrar
Village
Vatnsoyrar is a village founded in 1921 in the middle of the Faroese island of Vagar.
Vágar Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, international airport, and transport
- Location: Vágar, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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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
UN/LOCODE
FO FAE
Open location code
9CJJ3P7F+JG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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 Lufthavn”
- Dutch: “Luchthaven Vágar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤاجار ايرپورت”
- Esperanto: “Flughaveno de Vágar”
- Faroese: “Vága Floghavn”
- Finnish: “Vágarin lentoasema”
- French: “aéroport de Vágar”
- French: “Aéroport de Vágar”
- German: “Flughafen Vágar”
- Hebrew: “נמל התעופה ואוגר”
- Hungarian: “Vágari repülőtér”
- Icelandic: “Vágaflugvöllur”
- Icelandic: “Vogaflugvöllur”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Vágar”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Vágar”
- 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: “Vágar lufthavn”
- Norwegian: “Vágar lufthavn”
- Persian: “فرودگاه واگار”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Vágar”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Vágar”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Vágar”
- Russian: “Вагар”
- Serbian: “Aerodrom Vagar”
- Serbian: “Аеродром Вагар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aerodrom Vagar”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Vágar”
- Swedish: “Torshamn Vágar flygplats”
- Swedish: “Vágar flygplats”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Вагар”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи вогор”
- Turkish: “Vágar Havaalanı”
- Turkish: “Vágar Havalimanı”
- Ukrainian: “Вагар”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay Vágar”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Vágar”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Slættaberg and Slættabergsmúli.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Visit Vágar and Suður á FjaIli.
Faroe Islands: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Tórshavn and Northern Islands.
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