Nólsoy
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Photo: Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in central Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Nolsö” and “Nolsoy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nolso Island Lighthouse and Nólsoyar kirkja.
Nolso Island Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Udet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nolso Island Lighthouse is situated 3 km southeast of Nólsoy.
Nólsoyar kirkja
Church
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nólsoyar kirkja is a church, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Nólsoy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nólsoy and Argir.
Nólsoy
Village
Nólsoy is an island and village in central Faroe Islands, 4km east of the capital Tórshavn in Streymoy. Nólsoy is situated 3½ km northwest of Nólsoy.
Argir
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 7 km west of Nólsoy.
Tinganes
Quarter
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tinganes is the historic location of the Faroese landsstýri, and is a part of Tórshavn. The name means "parliament jetty" or "parliament point" in Faroese. Tinganes is situated 7 km northwest of Nólsoy.
Nólsoy
- Category: landform
- Location: Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Nólsoy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نولسوي”
- Azerbaijani: “Nyolsoy adası”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Наўльсой”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Ноўльсай”
- Belarusian: “Наўльсой”
- Belarusian: “Ноўльсай”
- Catalan: “Nólsoy”
- Chinese: “诺尔岛”
- Czech: “Nólsoy”
- Danish: “Nolsø”
- Danish: “Nólsoy”
- Dutch: “Nólsoy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نولسوى”
- Esperanto: “Nólsoy”
- Faroese: “Nólsoy”
- Finnish: “Nólsoy”
- French: “Nólsoy”
- Galician: “Nólsoy”
- German: “Nólsoy”
- Greek: “Νόλσοϊ”
- Hebrew: “נולסוי”
- Hungarian: “Nólsoy”
- Icelandic: “Nólsey”
- Irish: “Nólsoy”
- Italian: “Nólsoy”
- Japanese: “ネルソイ島”
- Korean: “놀소이섬”
- Latvian: “Nelsoja”
- Lithuanian: “Noulsojus”
- Manx: “Nólsoy, Nólsoy”
- Manx: “Nólsoy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nólsoy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nólsoy”
- Norwegian: “Nólsoy”
- Ossetian: “Нольсой”
- Polish: “Nólsoy”
- Portuguese: “Nólsoy”
- Romanian: “Nólsoy”
- Russian: “Нёльсой”
- Russian: “Ноульсой”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nólsoy”
- Slovak: “Nólsoy”
- Spanish: “Nolsoy”
- Spanish: “Nólsoy”
- Swedish: “Nólsoy”
- Turkish: “Nólsoy”
- Ukrainian: “Ноульсой”
- Vietnamese: “Nólsoy”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nólsoy”. Photo: Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0.