Gásadalur
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Gásadalur () is a village located on the west side of Vágar, Faroe Islands, and enjoys a panoramic view over to the island of Mykines. thumb|upright=1.3|The Gásadalstunnilin single-lane tunnel, Oct 2005
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Gásadalur
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Gásadalur (51256491640).jpg
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- Faroe Islands
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- left
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- Location in the Faroe Islands
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- State
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- Constituent country
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- Island
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Vágar
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Sørvágur
- Settlement.established_date
- 9th century
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 29 April 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 16
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
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- EST
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gásadalur () is a village located on the west side of Vágar, Faroe Islands, and enjoys a panoramic view over to the island of Mykines. thumb|upright=1.3|The Gásadalstunnilin single-lane tunnel, Oct 2005
Gásadalur is located on the edge of Mykinesfjørður, surrounded by the highest mountains on Vágar. Árnafjall towers to a height of to the north, and Eysturtindur to the east is . Here too, the view south to Tindhólmur and Gáshólmur is quite magnificent. Eysturtindur translates to English as "the Peak in the East".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gásadalur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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