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The village of Gásadalur in the Faroe Islands. From Wikipedia:

Gásadalur is located on the edge of Mykinesfjørður, surrounded by the highest mountains on Vágar. Árnafjall towers to a height of 722 metres to the north, and Eysturtindur to the east is 715 metres high. Here too, the view south to Tindhólmur and Gáshólmur is quite magnificent. Eysturtindur translates to English as "the Peak in the East".[1]

The boat landing site is very poor, because it is located somewhat higher than the seashore. So if the residents wanted to fish, they were obliged to keep their boats near Bøur. In 1940, during the British occupation of the Faroe Islands, a stairway was built from the beach up to the village.

In order to reach any of the other villages by land, residents had to take the strenuous route over mountains more than 400 metres high. This isolation explains why the village population had decreased. In 2002 there were only sixteen people living in Gásadalur, and several of the houses stand empty today. It had a population of 18 in 2012.[2] It had a population of 11 in 2020.
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Author Mike Maguire
Camera location62° 06′ 18.25″ N, 7° 26′ 07.58″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location62° 06′ 35.64″ N, 7° 26′ 19.07″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo


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