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Hvannasund
Sign in to saveHvannasund (, older spelling: Quannesund) is a village and municipality in the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.
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- Locality
- Hvannasund
- Region
- Norðoyar
- Country
- Føroyar
- Population
- 271
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Hvannasund
- Settlement.official_name
- Hvannasund Municipality
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Norðdepil and Hvannasund, Faroe Islands.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Hvannasund to the right of the central causeway, and Norðdepil to the left
- Settlement.image_map
- Map-position-hvannasunds-kommuna-2005.png
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Hvannasunds kommuna in the Faroe Islands
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Faroe Islands
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Hvannasund village in the Faroe Islands
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Island
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Viðoy
- Settlement.unit_pref
- metric
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Towns in municipality
- Culture
- Church
- Notable residents
- See also
- References
- External links
Hvannasund (, older spelling: Quannesund) is a village and municipality in the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.
Hvannasund is located on the west coast of the island of Viðoy. It faces Norðdepil on Borðoy. The villages are connected to each other by a causeway. A large cracked rock rests in an area just north of Hvannasund. An old legend details that the rock, called Skrudhettan, broke the very moment that Jesus was born.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hvannasund” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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