Toftir
Sign in to saveToftir () is a village in Nes Municipality on the island of Eysturoy, in the Faroe Islands. It is part of a chain of villages stretching over a distance of 10 kilometers on the east side of Skálafjørður (fjord) on Eysturoy island. The highest hill in Toftir, called Húkslond, is 129 meters high, and Nes Municipality is the only area in the Faroes which has no mountains above 200 meters.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Toftir
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Toftir, Faroe Islands.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Toftir in late June 2004
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- Faroe Islands
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- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
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- Location in the Faroe Islands
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- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
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- Island
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Faroe Islands
- Located in
- Nes Municipality
- Population
- +1085
- Capital of
- Nes Municipality
- Image
- Toftir, Faroe Islands.JPG
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- P706
- Eysturoy
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Local economy
- Fredericks Church
- Sport
- People from Toftir
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- References
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Toftir () is a village in Nes Municipality on the island of Eysturoy, in the Faroe Islands. It is part of a chain of villages stretching over a distance of 10 kilometers on the east side of Skálafjørður (fjord) on Eysturoy island. The highest hill in Toftir, called Húkslond, is 129 meters high, and Nes Municipality is the only area in the Faroes which has no mountains above 200 meters.
The Lake Toftir area was the first area in the Faroe Islands to become a Nature reserve in the 1980s, and in 2006 Nes Municipality, in cooperation with neighbouring Runavík Municipality, joined a network of local authorities in the Nordic countries working to halt the loss of biodiversity in their local areas.