Mykines
Mykines is the only settlement on Mykines Island, the westernmost of the Faroe Islands. It is a little coastal village with bright houses with turf roofs, with an old turf-roofed stone Church dating from 1878, and a small stream flowing through the village.
- Village with 13 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1 metre (3 feet)
- Description: settlement on Mykines, Faroe Islands
- Also known as“Myggenæs Bygd”“Mykines, Mykines”“Mykinesbygd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mykines and Church of Mykines.
Mykineshólmur Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Latitude
62.10425° or 62° 6′ 15″ north
Longitude
-7.64765° or 7° 38′ 52″ west
Open location code
9CJJ4932+PW
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Mykines” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Mykines”
- Chinese: “米基内斯”
- Danish: “Myggenæs”
- Danish: “Mykines”
- Dutch: “Mykines, Mykines”
- French: “Mykines”
- Greek: “Μίκινες (χωριό)”
- Greek: “Μύκινες”
- Hungarian: “Mykines”
- Irish: “Mykines”
- Japanese: “ミキネス”
- Lithuanian: “Mičinesas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mykines”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mykines”
- Ossetian: “Мичинес (хъæу)”
- Ossetian: “Мичинес”
- Polish: “Mykines”
- Romanian: “Mykines, Mykines”
- Slovenian: “Mykines”
- Tumbuka: “Mykines”
- Urdu: “میکائنز، میکائنز”
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