Norðdepil (Settlement)

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Norðdepil in the foreground and Hvannasund have been connected by a causeway since 1962, and the two villages are today part of the same municipality. A liner sails from Hvannasund to the islands of Fugloy and Svínoy. ÓLAVUR FREDERIKSEN, 2010

The outlying village of Norðdepil has 161 inhabitants. It has a cemetery but no church. The embankment from 1974 across sound has meant that Norðdepil and Hvannasund have become a coherent community with shared facilities.

A Norwegian whaling station was established here in 1897, which was in operation until it closed down after 1912.

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Hans Andrias Sølvará

(b. 1962) PhD in History and MA in History and Philosophy. Professor and dean of the Department of History and Society at the University of the Faroe Islands.