Main meeting excursion to the northern Eysturoy

The preliminary plans include:

• Visit at the windmill park and battery system at Húsahaga.

• Stop at the pass Norðadalsskarð with the view to the island Koltur and the iconic road down to the village of Norðadalur. This is known as a quite windy place. The road station at this location measured 76.5 m/s, before it disappeared, during the so-called Christmas storm on the 22’th of December 1988. Since then, the guardrail along the main road has been torn up a few times.

   

• Passing the early warning radar station at Sornfelli, which was established during the Cold War period in the early 1960s, please see the pre-meeting excursion

   

• The Whaling Station at Við Áir, which was established in 1905 and closed its commercial operation in 1958. It is the only surviving of the seven commercial whaling stations established in the Faroe Islands around the turn of the 20th century. Of the about 200 whaling stations established by Norwegian whalers around the world, this is the only one conserved in the northern hemisphere. It played a role in the industrialization of the Faroe Islands and is now under restoration as an open museum.

   

• Driving along the Strait of Sundalagi, special features in Faroese geology, some of the highest waterfalls, a mix of industry facilities and cozy villages, aquaculture sea plants, and old wooden churches will be along the route.

   

• The Loran C station at Eiði or a nearby viewpoint. This is also an abandoned installation from the Cold War period, which has been of vital importance for all navigation in this part of the Atlantic and Nordic Seas for almost half a century, and has had a significant local impact on the neighboring villages. Weather observations were part of the operations in this period, and today, one of the weather stations operated by FMO is nearby. Depending on the visibility, remains of the building hosting one of the first radars installed during World War II may be seen from here, which today provides space for communication equipment and one of the FMO web-cameras 

   

• Next, we plan to continue over the Eiðisskarð, which is the highest pass possible to cross on a public road at the foot of the highest mountains on the islands, while we are viewing over one of the reservoirs to one of the main hydro power plants, and an area considered for installation of a windmill park.

   

• Driving down from the Eiðisskarð to the the old village Funningur, where one of the first viking settlers arrived with his house hold more than a millennium ago, we will overview both aquaculture and seaweed plants in the fjord, and across the strait get a distance glimpse to Klakkur, the northern end of the island Kalsoy, which has become a tourist spot due to the iconic small lighthouse, and as the place where James Bond perished for good in the movie No Time to Die. From there, we will continue through the Funningsfjørð and Skálafjørð, where we plan to visit some industry enterprises, but have not decided yet whether it should be related to salmon or sheep, or maybe both.

   

• The final part of the trip will be through the city of Runavík and the sub-sea tunnel between Eysturoy and Torshavn, with the now world-famous roundabout with the sculpture by the local multi-artist, Tróndur Patursson.

• And of course also  stops where food and beverages will be provided

Please note that this is still just a preliminary working plan, and we hope to be more specific when we are closer to the meeting.  And as everything here in the Faroes, it is weather-permitted. We are really looking forward to meeting you here.