Fossá, Faroe Islands

Fossá
Fossá
	Village
	Fossá Location in the Faroe Islands
	Coordinates: 62°18′08.10″N 6°31′53.56″W
State	Kingdom of Denmark
Country	Faroe Islands
Island	Borðoy
Municipality	Hvannasund
Population (1 January 2006)
• Total	0
Time zone	GMT
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (EST)

Fossá is an abandoned village in the Faroe Islands.[1] It lies on the island of Borðoy, slightly north of Norðdepil. It is at a place where several waterfalls join the sea, hence its name (cf. Faroese fossur 'waterfall').[2] Fossá was established in the 1860s as a settlement village, but nobody has lived there in recent years.

References

Swaney, Deanna. 1994. Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands: A Travel Survival Kit. Hawthorn, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications, p. 586.
Krenn, Ernst. 1936. Die Namenwelt im Gebiete des kleinsten germanischen Volkes, der Föroyinger. Zeitschrift für Namenforschung 12: 34–49, 107–27, 229–47, p. 232.

External links

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[1] Swaney, Deanna. 1994. Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands: A Travel Survival Kit. Hawthorn, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications, p. 586.

[2] Krenn, Ernst. 1936. Die Namenwelt im Gebiete des kleinsten germanischen Volkes, der Föroyinger. Zeitschrift für Namenforschung 12: 34–49, 107–27, 229–47, p. 232.