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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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
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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
Village
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Streymoy is the largest of the Faroe Islands. The 24,700 inhabitants make up nearly half of the population of the Faroe Islands. Kirkjubøur is situated 4½ km east of Hestur.
Hestur
- Category: island
- Location: Tórshavn Municipality, Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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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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