Gásadalur
Vágar is an island in the Faroe Islands, the island is also called Vága in combination with other words.Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 14 residents
- Description: settlement on Vágar, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Gaasedal” and “Gasadalur”
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Mike Maguire, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eysturtindur and Árnafjall.
Eysturtindur
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Eysturtindur is the second highest point - 714 m - on the island of Vágoy, Faroe Islands.
Árnafjall
Peak
Árnafjall is the highest mountain on the island of Vágar in the Faroe Islands. The highest point is 722 metres above sea level. The name Árnafjall translates to the eagles mountain.
Vikar
Dwelling
Photo: latzenhofer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Víkar is an abandoned village in the Faroe Islands on the north coast of the island of Vágar. The name Víkar means coves in Faroese, a name with a similar meaning to that of the island of Vágar itself. Vikar is situated 3½ km northeast of Gásadalur.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bøur and Sørvágur.
Bøur
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vágar is an island in the Faroe Islands, the island is also called Vága in combination with other words. Bøur is situated 4 km southeast of Gásadalur.
Sørvágur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sørvágur is a village on the island of Vágar in the Faroe Islands. It is located at the landward end of Sørvágsfjørður. Sørvágur is the largest village in Sørvágur Municipality. Sørvágur is situated 8 km southeast of Gásadalur.
Gásadalur
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Vágar, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.10974° or 62° 6′ 35″ northLongitude
-7.43601° or 7° 26′ 10″ westPopulation
14Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)Open location code
9CJJ4H57+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023739OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2621596Wikidata ID
Q226056
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Gásadalur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قاوسا دولار”
- Asturian: “Gásadalur”
- Azerbaijani: “Qasadalur”
- Catalan: “Gásadalur”
- Danish: “Gásadalur”
- Danish: “Gåsedal”
- Dutch: “Gásadalur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قاوسا دولار”
- Esperanto: “Gásadalur”
- Faroese: “Gásadalur”
- Finnish: “Gásadalur”
- French: “Gásadalur”
- German: “Gásadalur”
- Hebrew: “גאסדלור”
- Hungarian: “Gásadalur”
- Icelandic: “Gásadalur”
- Indonesian: “Gasadalur”
- Indonesian: “Gásadalur”
- Irish: “Gásadalur”
- Italian: “Gásadalur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gásadalur”
- Norwegian: “Gásadalur”
- Ossetian: “Гоасадалур”
- Polish: “Gásadalur”
- Romanian: “Gásadalur”
- Spanish: “Gasadalur”
- Spanish: “Gásadalur”
- Swedish: “Gásadalur”
- Turkish: “Gásadalur”
- Vietnamese: “Gásadalur”
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