Suðuroy
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Suðuroy is the southernmost of the Faroe Islands. The island covers 163.7 square kilometres. In 2018 the population was 4,601. Suðuroy region comprises this island and Lítla Dímun, the next isle north
The 3.3 MW Botnur Hydroelectric Power Plant was built in 1921.
View from Eggjarnar
Fámjin is surrounded by some of the highest mountains of Suðuroy. The lake at left is Kirkjuvatn.
Pál Joensen
Slave raid of Suðuroy
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The Slave raid of Suðuroy was a slave raid by North African Barbary pirates that took place in the Faroe Islands in the summer of 1629. More than thirty people, mainly women and children, were taken f
Suðuroy
…pirates, who in the Faroe Islands were referred to as Turks when North Africa belonged to the Ottoman Empire. One well known such incident was the Slave raid of Suðuroy. They abducted several women and children. Famine ensued, and many of the island's inhabitants died of starvation. In 1615, the pirate-plagued Hvalba…
Skansin fortress in Thorshavn