Kambsdalur (Settlement)

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Kambsdalur, named after the Kambur mountain, is the Faroe Islands’ youngest outlying village. Fuglafjørður has not much area to build on, and the Kambsdalur area south of the village has therefore been included for housing development. The YMCA and YWCA scouts had a clubhouse on the site, but the first real housing did not come until 1985. Kambsdalur also has an industrial area with workshops and companies which make hydraulic equipment and equipment for fishing and salmon farming.

After starting in the old school in Gøtugjógv in 1982, Studentaskúlin and HF-skeiðið í Eysturoy, i.e. the high school programme in Eysturoy, moved into a new school building in Kambsdalur in 1993. The same place as the local branch of Føroya Handilsskúli, which was both a business school in the traditional sense and a commercial college, and which had been there since 1989. The two schools merged in 2012 to become Miðnám á Kambsdali, which includes an ordinary high school, commercial college and a higher preparatory examination programme. Miðnám á Kambsdali mainly recruits students from Eysturoy and Norðoyggjar and also has a branch in Klaksvík.

Kambsdalur also has day-care facilities and reception classes.

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