Kalsoy
Kalsoy is an island in the north-east of the Faroe Islands of Denmark between Eysturoy and Kunoy. The name means man island; by contrast with the parallel island to the east, Kunoy, the name of which means woman island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mikladals kirkja.
Mikladals kirkja
Church
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Mikladals kirkja is a church, which is situated 2½ km north of Kalsoy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mikladalur and Kunoy.
Mikladalur
Village
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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. Mikladalur is situated 2½ km north of Kalsoy.
Kunoy
Village
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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 5 km southeast of Kalsoy.
Trøllanes
Village
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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 6 km north of Kalsoy.
Kalsoy
- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Category: landform
- Location: Northern Islands, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kalsoy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كالسوي”
- Azerbaijani: “Kalsoy adası”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кальсай”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кальсой”
- Belarusian: “Кальсай”
- Belarusian: “Кальсой”
- Catalan: “Kalsoy”
- Chinese: “卡尔斯岛”
- Czech: “Kalsoy”
- Danish: “Kalsø”
- Danish: “Kalsoy”
- Dutch: “Kalsoy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كالسوى”
- Esperanto: “Kalsoy”
- Faroese: “Kallsoy”
- Faroese: “Kalsoy”
- Finnish: “Kalsoy”
- French: “Kalsoy”
- German: “Kalsoy”
- Greek: “Κάλσοϊ”
- Hebrew: “קאלסוי”
- Hungarian: “Kalsoy”
- Icelandic: “Kalsoy”
- Icelandic: “Karlsey”
- Indonesian: “Kalsoy”
- Irish: “Kalsoy”
- Italian: “Kalsoy”
- Japanese: “ケァルソイ島”
- Korean: “칼소이섬”
- Latvian: “Kalsoja”
- Lithuanian: “Kalsojus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalsø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalsoy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalsøy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalsoy”
- Norwegian: “Kalsoy”
- Ossetian: “Калсой”
- Ossetian: “Кальсой”
- Polish: “Kalsoy”
- Portuguese: “Kalsoy”
- Romanian: “Kalsoy”
- Russian: “Калсой”
- Russian: “Кальсой”
- Scots: “Kalsoy”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kalsoy”
- Serbian: “Kalsoj”
- Serbian: “Калсој”
- Slovak: “Kalsoy”
- Spanish: “Kalsoy”
- Swedish: “Kalsö”
- Swedish: “Kalsoy”
- Turkish: “Kalsoy”
- Ukrainian: “Кальсой”
- Vietnamese: “Kalsoy”
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