Faroe Islands

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Feb 03, 2025 04:42 PM — History

An archipelago made up of 18 islands situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/136699833

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
61.9629568795, -6.89831267378

Locations:

Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Faroe Islands (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Associated Modern Names:
- Faroe Islands (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)

Faroe Islands makes connections with:

None

Faroe Islands receives connections from:

None

Place type:
archipelago, island group

References:

See Further:

Wikipedia (English) Faroe Islands

Related:

Wikidata Faroe Islands (Q4628)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Faroe Islands: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/136699833> [accessed: 25 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/136699833 |title=Places: 136699833 (Faroe Islands) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 25, 2025 1:33 am |publisher=Pleiades}}