Annual pilot whale killings in the Faroe Islands – An ongoing debate.
The Faroese have hunted the long-finned pilot whales in a tradition known as the Grindadrap for as long as anyone can remember. The earliest mention o...
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Referendum on a new Faroese Constitution in April 2018
According to a press release a referendum on the Faroese constitution will be held on 25 April 2018. “The Government is aiming to ensure as broad supp...
The memory of Birna Brjansdottir “I am Birna, all my friends are Birna”
Yesterday thousands’ of people gathered together and walked the route of the young woman murdered in Iceland in Januray. A missing person turned murde...
Pilot whale pod slaughtered in the Faroes
A large pod of pilot whales have been slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, in keeping with the archipelago’s ‘grindadrap’ tradition which sees the cullin...
Sea Shepherd bound for Faroes whale slaughter
Conservation ship The Sea Shepherd, famous for its confrontational eco-wars against Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, is headed to the North Atl...
New flights launch between Faroe Islands and Edinburgh
Atlantic Airways, the national carrier of the Faroe Islands, has launched its new service to Edinburgh. Arriving last Monday, the Airbus A319 landed i...
Faroe Islands to lure tourists for solar eclipse
Thousands of tourists are expected to descend upon the Faroe Islands in order to see the solar eclipse later this month. As long as the sky remains re...
The March 20th Solar Eclipse in Iceland
The eclipse of March 20, 2015 is a Total Solar Eclipse. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth’s surface, which lies only 70 km east from...