Frammi við Gjónna | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 62°8′11.76″N 7°1′19.34″W / 62.1366000°N 7.0220389°W | |
State | ![]() |
Country | ![]() |
Island | Streymoy |
Municipality | Kvívík |
Population (1 January 2016) | |
• Total | 0 |
Time zone | GMT |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+1 ( EST) |
Frammi við Gjónna is an abandoned village in the Faroe Islands.
A farm was established in the village as a settlement village in 1815, but there was probably already settlement at the site even earlier. [1] The farm is located next to some streams near Lake Leynar in the Municipality of Kvívík on Streymoy. [2] [3] Frammi við Gjónna is a typical example of a Faroese farm, where the residents lived in a long stone house with a grass roof and subsisted by raising sheep. Today the farm houses a restaurant called Koks, [4] [5] and the flat fields below the farm, near Lake Leynar, are cultivated. Frammi við Gjónna was used as the motif for a postage stamp engraved by Czesław Słania and issued by the Faroese postal service in 1987.
Frammi við Gjónna | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 62°8′11.76″N 7°1′19.34″W / 62.1366000°N 7.0220389°W | |
State | ![]() |
Country | ![]() |
Island | Streymoy |
Municipality | Kvívík |
Population (1 January 2016) | |
• Total | 0 |
Time zone | GMT |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+1 ( EST) |
Frammi við Gjónna is an abandoned village in the Faroe Islands.
A farm was established in the village as a settlement village in 1815, but there was probably already settlement at the site even earlier. [1] The farm is located next to some streams near Lake Leynar in the Municipality of Kvívík on Streymoy. [2] [3] Frammi við Gjónna is a typical example of a Faroese farm, where the residents lived in a long stone house with a grass roof and subsisted by raising sheep. Today the farm houses a restaurant called Koks, [4] [5] and the flat fields below the farm, near Lake Leynar, are cultivated. Frammi við Gjónna was used as the motif for a postage stamp engraved by Czesław Słania and issued by the Faroese postal service in 1987.