Mikladalur
Mikladalur, meaning "great valley or dale" is the largest of four villages on the northern Faroese island of Kalsoy in the municipality of Klaksvík. It is situated in a large U-shaped valley on the east coast of the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mikladals kirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trøllanes and Skarð.
Trøllanes
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trøllanes is a village at the northern end of the Faroese island of Kalsoy in the municipality of Klaksvík. Its postal code is FO 798. A tunnel to the village of Mikladalur to the south, the Trøllanestunnilin, was completed in 1985. Trøllanes is situated 3 km north of Mikladalur.
Skarð
Hamlet
Photo: Tofts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skarð is an abandoned village on the east coast of the island of Kunoy in the Norðoyar region of the Faroes. Skarð means mountain pass. On 23 December 1913, all seven able-bodied men of the village perished while out fishing in the village boat. Skarð is situated 6 km east of Mikladalur.
Kunoy
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kunoy is a village and municipality in the Faroe Islands. The village itself is located on the western shores of the island of Kunoy, which the town is named after. Kunoy is situated 7 km southeast of Mikladalur.
Mikladalur
- Type: Village with 27 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: hamlet and locality
- Location: Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.33519° or 62° 20′ 7″ northLongitude
-6.76609° or 6° 45′ 58″ westPopulation
27Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
9CJM86PM+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023772OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2616900Wikidata ID
Q635350
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Mikladalur” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Mikladalur”
- Chinese: “米克拉达勒”
- Danish: “Mikladalur”
- Danish: “Mygledal”
- Dutch: “Mikladalur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميكلادالور”
- Faroese: “Mikladalur”
- French: “Mikladalur”
- German: “Mikladalur”
- Hebrew: “מיקלאדאלור”
- Hungarian: “Mikladalur”
- Icelandic: “Mikladalur”
- Icelandic: “Miklidalur”
- Irish: “Mikladalur”
- Italian: “Mikladalur”
- Lithuanian: “Mikladaluras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mikladalur”
- Norwegian: “Mikladalur”
- Ossetian: “Микладалур”
- Polish: “Mikladalur”
- Romanian: “Mikladalur”
- Russian: “Микладалур”
- Russian: “Микладеалур”
- Spanish: “Mikladalur”
- Swedish: “Mikladalur”
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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 “Mikladalur”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.