Lake Leynar
Lake Leynar is a lake on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. Lake Leynar is the sixth-largest natural lake in the Faroe Islands and it measures 0.18 square kilometers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Frammi við Gjónna and Kvívík Church.
Frammi við Gjónna
Dwelling
Frammi við Gjónna is an abandoned village in the Faroe Islands. A farm was established in the village as a settlement village in 1815, but there was probably already settlement at the site even earlier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leynar and Stykkið.
Leynar
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Leynar is a village in the Faroe Islands, a self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark. The village is situated on the western coast of the island of Streymoy in the municipality of Kvívíkar.
Stykkið
Village
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Stykkið is a village on the west coast of the Faroese island Streymoy in Kvívík Municipality. The 2005 population was 42. Its postal code is FO 330. Stykkið was founded in 1845.
Kvívík
Village
Photo: Mirek237, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kvívík is a village and municipality on the west coast of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands.
Lake Leynar
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands
- Category: body of water
- Location: Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.12842° or 62° 7′ 42″ northLongitude
-7.02397° or 7° 1′ 26″ westElevation
196 metres (643 feet)Open location code
9CJJ4XHG+9COpenStreetMap ID
way 261724114OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
2617769Wikidata ID
Q302162
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Welsh—“Lake Leynar” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Leynavatn”
- Faroese: “Leynavatn”
- Hungarian: “Leynavatn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leynavatn”
- Norwegian: “Leynavatn”
- Swedish: “Leynavatn”
- Welsh: “Llyn Leynar”
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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 “Lake Leynar”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.