Sandvík
Sandvík is the northernmost village of the island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands. It is situated on the northern side of a shallow fjord. The village was previously known as Hvalvík.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 67 residents
- Description: settlement on Suduroy, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Sandvik”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandvíkar kirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hvalba and Hvalbiareiði.
Hvalba
Village
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Hvalba is a village and a municipality in the Faroe Islands, which consists of Hvalba, Nes-Hvalba and Sandvík. The village spreads around the bottom of a deep inlet, Hvalbiarfjørður, in the northeast of Suðuroy. Hvalba is situated 4 km south of Sandvík.
Hvalbiareiði
Locality
Hvalbiareiði is also called Fiskieiði, it is located on the west coast of Suðuroy, west of the village Hvalba. Hvalbiareiði is situated 5 km south of Sandvík.
Trongisvágur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trongisvágur is a village on the island of Suduroy in the Faroe Islands. Trongisvágur is the village in the bottom of Trongisvágsfjørður on the east coast of Suduroy. Trongisvágur is situated 9 km southeast of Sandvík.
Sandvík
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.63418° or 61° 38′ 3″ northLongitude
-6.92884° or 6° 55′ 44″ westPopulation
67Elevation
141 metres (463 feet)Open location code
9CHMJ3MC+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023788OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2614203Wikidata ID
Q1025816
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Sandvík” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sandvík”
- Chinese: “桑维克”
- Czech: “Sandvík”
- Danish: “Sandvig”
- Danish: “Sandvík”
- Dutch: “Sandvík”
- Esperanto: “Sandvík”
- Faroese: “Sandvík”
- French: “Sandvík”
- German: “Sandvík”
- Hungarian: “Sandvík”
- Irish: “Sandvík”
- Lithuanian: “Sandvikas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandvig”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandvik”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandvík”
- Norwegian: “Sandvík”
- Ossetian: “Санвуйк”
- Ossetian: “Сандвик”
- Ossetian: “Сандвуйк”
- Portuguese: “Sandvík”
- Romanian: “Sandvik”
- Romanian: “Sandvík”
- Russian: “Сандвик”
- Slovak: “Sandvík”
- Swedish: “Sandvík”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sandvík”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.