Eysturoy
Eysturoy is part of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. Eysturoy, meaning "east island", is the second-largest island in the Faroe Islands, both in size and population.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: island with 10,800 residents
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Eysturoy region” and “Eysturoyar sysla”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fuglafjarðar kirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fuglafjørður and Funningsfjørður.
Fuglafjørður
Town
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Fuglafjørður is a village on Eysturoy's east coast in the Faroe Islands. Its name means "fjord of birds". The village is at the edge of a bay and expands into the surrounding steep hills.
Funningsfjørður
Village
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Funningsfjørður is a village in Faroe Islands, located at the end of a fjord of the same name. It was founded in 1812 and has since 2005 been part of the municipality of Runavík.
Skálabotnur
Village
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Skálafjørður, also known as Skálabotnur, is a village at the end of the Skálafjørður fjord on the Faroese island of Eysturoy located in Runavík Municipality.
Eysturoy
- Location: Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Eysturoy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيستروي”
- Arabic: “إيستوروي”
- Azerbaijani: “Esturoy adası”
- Basque: “Eysturoy”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Эстурой”
- Belarusian: “Эстурай”
- Belarusian: “Эстурой”
- Bengali: “এইস্তুরয়”
- Catalan: “Eysturoy”
- Chinese: “东岛”
- Chinese: “厄斯特岛”
- Czech: “Eysturoy”
- Danish: “Eysturoy”
- Danish: “Østerø Syssel”
- Dutch: “Eysturoy”
- Esperanto: “Eysturoy”
- Estonian: “Eysturoy”
- Faroese: “Eysturoy”
- Faroese: “Eysturoyar sýsla”
- Finnish: “Eysturoy”
- French: “Eysturoy”
- German: “Eysturoy”
- German: “Østerø”
- Greek: “Εϊστούροϊ”
- Greek: “Έστουροϊ”
- Gujarati: “ઇસ્ટુરોય”
- Hebrew: “אסטורוי”
- Hindi: “आइस्टुरॉय”
- Hungarian: “Eysturoy”
- Icelandic: “Austurey”
- Indonesian: “Eysturoy”
- Irish: “Eysturoy”
- Italian: “Eysturoy”
- Japanese: “エストゥロイ島”
- Kannada: “ಐಸ್ಟುರಾಯ್”
- Korean: “에스투로이섬”
- Latvian: “Eisturoja”
- Lithuanian: “Eisturojus”
- Lombard: “Eysturoy”
- Malay: “Eysturoy”
- Marathi: “येईस्टुरॉय”
- Northern Frisian: “Eysturoy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eysturoy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eysturoy”
- Norwegian: “Eysturoy”
- Ossetian: “Эстурой”
- Persian: “ایستوروی”
- Polish: “Eysturoy”
- Portuguese: “Eysturoy”
- Romanian: “Eysturoy”
- Russian: “Эстурой”
- Scots: “Eysturoy”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eysturoy”
- Serbian: “Ејстурој”
- Sinhala: “එයිස්ටුරෝයි”
- Slovak: “Eysturoy”
- Spanish: “Eysturoy”
- Swedish: “Eysturoy”
- Tamil: “எய்ஸ்ட்டுரோய்”
- Telugu: “ఈస్టురోయ్”
- Thai: “เอสทูรอย”
- Turkish: “Eysturoy”
- Ukrainian: “Естурой”
- Urdu: “ییستوروی”
- Vietnamese: “Eysturoy”
- Welsh: “Eysturoy”
- Welsh: “Østerø”
- Western Frisian: “Eysturoy”
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