Fossá, Faroe Islands

Village in Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark

Fossá

Village

Fossá

Location in the Faroe Islands

Coordinates: 62°18′08.10″N 6°31′53.56″W﻿ / ﻿62.3022500°N 6.5315444°W﻿ / 62.3022500; -6.5315444
State|  Kingdom of Denmark
Country|  Faroe Islands
Island| Borðoy
Municipality| Hvannasund
Population

(1 January 2006)

• Total

| 0
Time zone| GMT
• Summer (DST)| UTC+1 (EST)

Fossá is an abandoned village in the Faroe Islands.[1] It lies on the island of Borðoy, slightly north of Norðdepil. It is at a place where several waterfalls join the sea, hence its name (cf. Faroese fossur 'waterfall' + á 'river').[2] Fossá was established in the 1860s as a settlement village, but nobody has lived there in recent years.

## References

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1. ^ Swaney, Deanna. 1994. Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands: A Travel Survival Kit. Hawthorn, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications, p. 586.
2. ^ Krenn, Ernst. 1936. Die Namenwelt im Gebiete des kleinsten germanischen Volkes, der Föroyinger. Zeitschrift für Namenforschung 12: 34–49, 107–27, 229–47, p. 232.

## External links

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* Picture of Fossá at Flickr

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