Sandoyar
Sandoy is an island in the Faroe Islands, south of Streymoy. It's one of the archipelago's more southerly islands: only Suðuroy, Skúvoy and the two small Dímun islands are further south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: island with 1,350 residents
- Description: island in the Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Sandoy”, “Sandoy (island in the Faroe Islands)”, “Sandoy region”, “Sandoyar Sysla”, and “Sandoyar Sýsla”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sands kirkja and Skálavík Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandur and Skarvanes.
Sandur
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandur is a village on the south coast of the island of Sandoy in the Faroe Islands. The Sandur hoard of silver coins, dating to the end of the 11th century, attests to the long history of the village.
Skarvanes
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skarvanes is a village on Sandoy, in the Faroe Islands. It temporarily became extinct in 2000 when its last permanent inhabitant died, though the population has since rebounded; as of 2013, the population is 13, with most of the houses being uses as holiday homes.
Skálavík
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skálavík is a village and municipality on the eastern coast of the Faroese island Sandoy.
Sandoyar
- Location: Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Sandoyar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Sandoyar” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sandoy”
- Azerbaijani: “Sandoy adası”
- Basque: “Sandoy”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сандой”
- Belarusian: “Сандай”
- Belarusian: “Сандой”
- Catalan: “Sandoy”
- Chinese: “桑岛”
- Chinese: “桑島”
- Czech: “Sandoy”
- Danish: “Sandø Syssel”
- Danish: “Sandø”
- Danish: “Sandoy”
- Dutch: “Sandoy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساندوى”
- Esperanto: “Sandoy”
- Faroese: “Sandoy”
- Faroese: “Sandoyar sýsla”
- Finnish: “Sandoy”
- French: “Sandoy”
- German: “Sandø”
- German: “Sandoy”
- Greek: “Σάντοϊ”
- Hebrew: “סאנדוי”
- Hungarian: “Sandoy”
- Icelandic: “Sandey”
- Icelandic: “Sandoy”
- Indonesian: “Sandoy”
- Irish: “Sandoy”
- Italian: “Sandoy”
- Japanese: “サンドイ島”
- Korean: “산도이섬”
- Latvian: “Sandoja”
- Lithuanian: “Sandojus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandoy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sandoy”
- Norwegian: “Sandoy”
- Ossetian: “Сандой”
- Polish: “Sandoy”
- Portuguese: “Sandoy”
- Romanian: “Sandoy”
- Russian: “Сандой”
- Scots: “Sandoy”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sandoy”
- Slovak: “Sandoy”
- Spanish: “Sandoy”
- Swedish: “Sandoy”
- Turkish: “Sandoy”
- Ukrainian: “Сандой”
- Vietnamese: “Sandoy”
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