Hvalba
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Hvalba is one of the larger villages in the Faroe Islands.
Hvalba spreads around the bottom of a deep inlet, Hvalbiarfjørður, northeast of Suðuroy.
Two tunnels connect Hvalba to its neighbouring villages. The southbound tunnel (1400 m) leads to Trongisvágur/Tvøroyri and the northbound one (1500 m) leads to Sandvík. In the mountains around the southbound tunnel brown coal has been extracted from deep and unpleasantly low mines since the 1770s. The coal was an important source of energy on the Faroe Islands until the end of World War II. A few miners are still extracting coal from the mines. Today there is only one coal mine left. Hvalba is located on the east side of the island but the inlet is so deep that the distance to the west coast is short. On the west coast there is a place of call that makes it possible to go fishing in small boats from both sides of the island. Hvalba is a beautiful village and the nature on the west coast is definitely worth visiting.
Hvalba spreads around the bottom of a deep inlet, Hvalbiarfjørður, northeast of Suðuroy.
Two tunnels connect Hvalba to its neighbouring villages. The southbound tunnel (1400 m) leads to Trongisvágur/Tvøroyri and the northbound one (1500 m) leads to Sandvík. In the mountains around the southbound tunnel brown coal has been extracted from deep and unpleasantly low mines since the 1770s. The coal was an important source of energy on the Faroe Islands until the end of World War II. A few miners are still extracting coal from the mines. Today there is only one coal mine left. Hvalba is located on the east side of the island but the inlet is so deep that the distance to the west coast is short. On the west coast there is a place of call that makes it possible to go fishing in small boats from both sides of the island. Hvalba is a beautiful village and the nature on the west coast is definitely worth visiting.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hvalba
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Coordinates: 61°35'53"N 6°56'36"W
- Trongisvágur 5.3 km
- Tvøroyri 7.4 km
- Øravíkarlíð 7.5 km
- Fámjin 8.5 km
- Øravík 9 km
- Hov 14 km
- Porkeri 16 km
- Akrar 18 km
- Lopra 19 km
- Sumba 24 km
- Hvalbiarfjørður 2.7 km
- Gluggarnir mountain 5.9 km
- Suðuroyarfjørður 9 km
- Trongisvágsfjørður 10 km
- Suðuroy 10 km
- Vágsfjørður 17 km
- Sumbiar municipality 22 km
- Munkurin 32 km
- Faroe Islands 34 km
- Rosemary Bank 314 km