Árnafjørður
Árnafjørður is a town of the municipality of Klaksvík, on the island of Borðoy, in the Faroe Islands. Árnafjørður is located at the bottom of a deep inlet, named Árnfjarðarvík, "corner fjord's bay", on the east side of Borðoy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 65 residents
- Description: settlement on Borðoy, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Arnafjordur” and “Arnefiord”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Árnafjarðar kirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ánir and Norðtoftir.
Ánir
Village
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Ánir, also Ánirnar is a village in the Faroe Islands on the northern island of Borðoy. In 2007 it had a population of 16, but with the expansion of the area with the new apartments above the old settlement the population has increased to 55 in 2013.
Norðtoftir
Village
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Norðtoftir is a small settlement on the Faroese island of Borðoy in the Hvannasund municipality. The 2023 population was 3. Its postal code is FO 736. Norðtoftir is situated on the east coast of Borðoy at the end of the second tunnel on the road from Klaksvik. Norðtoftir is situated 2½ km northeast of Árnafjørður.
Strond
Hamlet
Photo: Arne List, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Strond is a former village in the north of the town of Klaksvík on the sound of Haraldssund in the Faroe Islands. It is situated on Borðoy on the causeway connecting Borðoy and Kunoy. Strond is situated 3 km northwest of Árnafjørður.
Árnafjørður
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Klaksvík Municipality, Northern Islands, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.2554° or 62° 15′ 19″ northLongitude
-6.5363° or 6° 32′ 11″ westPopulation
65Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)Open location code
9CJM7F47+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023727OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2624633Wikidata ID
Q252240
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Árnafjørður” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Árnafjørður”
- Danish: “Árnafjørður”
- Danish: “Arnefjord”
- Dutch: “Árnafjørður”
- Esperanto: “Árnafjørður”
- Faroese: “Árnafjørður”
- French: “Árnafjørður”
- German: “Árnafjørður”
- German: “Arnefjord”
- Hungarian: “Árnafjørður”
- Irish: “Árnafjørður”
- Italian: “Árnafjørður”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Árnafjørður”
- Norwegian: “Árnafjørður”
- Polish: “Árnafjørður”
- Romanian: “Árnafjørður”
- Swedish: “Árnafjørður”
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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 “Árnafjørður”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.