Glyvrar Explained

Glyvrar
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Faroe Islands
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in the Faroe Islands
Subdivision Type:State
Subdivision Type1:Constituent country
Subdivision Name1: Faroe Islands
Subdivision Type2:Island
Subdivision Name2:Eysturoy
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Runavíkar kommuna
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:March 2023
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:469
Timezone:GMT
Timezone Dst:EST
Utc Offset Dst:+1
Coordinates:62.1314°N -6.7242°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:FO 625
Blank Name:Climate
Blank Info:Cfc

Glyvrar (Danish: Glibre) is a village located on Eysturoy, in the Faroe Islands.

It is one of several villages on the east side of the Skálafjørður fjord that have grown into a 10-kilometre-long conurbation.

In Glyvrar there is a museum called ’Bygdasavnid Forni’. The church in Glyvrar was originally built in 1927, but it was heavily restored in 1981.

From 1903 to 1928 there was a school for navigators in Glyvrar. Graduates from here would become masters of fishing-ships.

The Bible translator Victor Danielsen worked as a teacher in Glyvrar in 1914.

The salmon-farming company Bakkafrost is based in Glyvrar. Bakkafrost is the largest fish farming company in the Faroe Islands and one of the biggest private employers in the islands, if not the biggest.[2] Bakkafrost is the eighth largest fish-farming company in the world.[3]

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  1. https://hagstova.fo/en/population/population/population Population, municipalities and villages
  2. Web site: Bakkafrost Chief Financial Officer quits. 7 October 2014. Fishupdate.com. 23 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150925083335/http://www.fishupdate.com/bakkafrost-chief-financial-officer-quits/. 25 September 2015. dead.
  3. Web site: portal.fo - Føroysk alifyritøka er áttinda størst í heiminum . 2015-09-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151029220310/http://portal.fo/foroysk+alifyritoka+attinda+storsta+i+heiminum.html . 2015-10-29 . dead .