Sandur
Sandur is a village on the south coast of the island of Sandoy in the Faroe Islands. The Sandur hoard of silver coins, dating to the end of the 11th century, attests to the long history of the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 521 residents
- Description: settlement on Sandoy, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Sandur, Faroe Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sands kirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skarvanes and Skúvoy.
Skarvanes
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skarvanes is a village on Sandoy, in the Faroe Islands. It temporarily became extinct in 2000 when its last permanent inhabitant died, though the population has since rebounded; as of 2013, the population is 13, with most of the houses being uses as holiday homes. Skarvanes is situated 6 km southeast of Sandur.
Skúvoy
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The village Skúvoy lies on the east side of the island with the same name. Skúvoy is the only village on the island. The inhabitants of Skúvoy mainly earn their living from agriculture. Skúvoy is situated 7 km south of Sandur.
Húsavík
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Húsavík is an old village located on the east of the island of Sandoy, in Húsavík Municipality, Faroe Islands. In the centre of Húsavík there is a ruin called ‘Heimi á Garði’. Húsavík is situated 8 km east of Sandur.
Sandur
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sandoyar, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.83485° or 61° 50′ 6″ northLongitude
-6.81672° or 6° 49′ 0″ westPopulation
521Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)Open location code
9CHMR5MM+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 29023795OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2614212Wikidata ID
Q842901
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Sandur” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sandur”
- Chinese: “桑杜尔”
- Czech: “Sandur”
- Danish: “Sand”
- Danish: “Sandur”
- Dutch: “Sandur”
- Faroese: “Sandur”
- Finnish: “Sandur”
- German: “Sandur”
- Greek: “Σάντουρ”
- Hebrew: “סאנדור”
- Hungarian: “Sandur”
- Icelandic: “Sandur”
- Irish: “Sandur”
- Kalaallisut: “Sandur”
- Lithuanian: “Sanduras”
- Manx: “Sandur, Ellanyn ny Geyrragh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Heima á Sandi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandur”
- Norwegian: “Sandur”
- Ossetian: “Сандур”
- Polish: “Sandur”
- Romanian: “Sandur, Insulele Feroe”
- Romanian: “Sandur”
- Russian: “Сандур”
- Slovak: “Sandur”
- Spanish: “Sandur”
- Swedish: “Sandur, Färöarna”
- Swedish: “Sandur”
- Turkish: “Sandur”
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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 “Sandur”. Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.