Strond (Settlement)

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Strond covers 7 merkur and 5 skinn. The copyhold land covers 2 merkur and 5 skinn leased by a copyhold tenant living in Klaksvík. The freehold land covers 5 merkur. The sheep herd consists of 212 animals. The village was abandoned in 1908. In the highlying Strandardalur above the village, water is dammed up behind a dam from where it is led to a hydropower plant.

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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.