Hestur
Hestur is an island in the central Faroe Islands, to the west of Streymoy and the south of Koltur. Hestur means horse in Faroese. On the west coast is a guillemot colony.Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 44 residents
- Description: island of the Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Hestö Bygd” and “Hestsbygd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hests kirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hestur and Velbastaður.
Hestur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hestur is an island in the central Faroe Islands, to the west of Streymoy and the south of Koltur. Hestur means horse in Faroese. On the west coast is a guillemot colony.
Velbastaður
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Velbastaður is a village on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. It is a part of Tórshavn Municipality and is considered among the oldest settlements in the islands. Velbastaður is situated 3½ km northeast of Hestur.
Kirkjubøur
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kirkjubøur is the southernmost village on Streymoy. The village is the Faroes' most important historical site, with the ruins of the Magnus Cathedral from around 1300, Saint Olav's Church, from the 12th century and the old farmhouse of Kirkjubøargarður from the 11th century.
Hestur
- Category: island
- Location: Tórshavn Municipality, Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Hestur” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hestur”
- Arabic: “هستر”
- Arabic: “هستور”
- Azerbaijani: “Hestur adası”
- Bavarian: “Hestur”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Хестур”
- Belarusian: “Гэстур”
- Belarusian: “Хестур”
- Catalan: “Hestur”
- Chinese: “海斯特岛”
- Chinese: “海斯特島”
- Chinese: “马岛”
- Czech: “Hestur”
- Danish: “Hestoy”
- Danish: “Hestur”
- Dutch: “Hestur”
- Esperanto: “Hestur”
- Faroese: “Hestoy”
- Faroese: “Hestur”
- Finnish: “Hestur”
- French: “Hestoy”
- French: “Hestur”
- French: “île de Hestur”
- German: “Hestoy”
- German: “Hestur”
- Greek: “Χέστουρ”
- Hebrew: “הסטור”
- Hungarian: “Hestur”
- Icelandic: “Hestur”
- Indonesian: “Hestur”
- Irish: “Hestur”
- Italian: “Hestur”
- Japanese: “ヘストゥル島”
- Korean: “헤스투르섬”
- Latvian: “Hestura”
- Lithuanian: “Hesturas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hestø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hestoy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hestur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hestur”
- Norwegian: “Hestur”
- Ossetian: “Хестур”
- Persian: “هستور”
- Polish: “Hestur”
- Portuguese: “Hestur”
- Romanian: “Hestur”
- Romanian: “Insula Hestur”
- Russian: “Хестур”
- Scots: “Hestur”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hestur”
- Slovak: “Hestur”
- Spanish: “Hestur”
- Swedish: “Hestö”
- Swedish: “Hestoy”
- Swedish: “Hestur”
- Turkish: “Hestur”
- Ukrainian: “Гестур”
- Vietnamese: “Hestur”
- “Insula Hestur”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nakkur and Hestur.
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