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Kirkja
Sign in to saveKirkja () is a village on the island of Fugloy, Faroe Islands. It is located on the south-tip of the island, and its land is stretching all over the western side of the island, including a small enclave in the now uninhabited Skarðsvík. Here archaeologists have located an old settlement that has probably been only a part-time settlement used either by people from Kirkja or Hattarvík.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kirkja
- Region
- Norðoyar
- Country
- Føroyar
- Population
- 31
- Timezone
- Atlantic/Faroe
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Kirkja
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kirkja, Faroe Islands.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kirkja on Fugloy
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Faroe Islands
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- top
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Island
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Fugloy
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Fugloyar kommuna
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 29 April 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 30
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- EST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +1
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- FO 766
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Faroe Islands
- Located in
- Fugloy Municipality
- Population
- 30
- Capital of
- Fugloy
- Image
- Kirkja, Faroe Islands.JPG
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- Kirkja
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- Kirkja
- located in/on physical feature
- Fugloy
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Transportation
- Climate
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- References
- External links
Kirkja () is a village on the island of Fugloy, Faroe Islands. It is located on the south-tip of the island, and its land is stretching all over the western side of the island, including a small enclave in the now uninhabited Skarðsvík. Here archaeologists have located an old settlement that has probably been only a part-time settlement used either by people from Kirkja or Hattarvík.
==Transportation== Kirkja is one of two villages on the island of Fugloy that are connected both by the road built in the 1980s and by the ferry that connects both Kirkja and Hattarvík to Hvannasund on the larger island of Viðoy, and in the last two decades the island can also be reached by helicopter either from the national airport in Vágar, the national capital of Tórshavn or the regional capital Klaksvík.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kirkja” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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