Faeroe Islands
The Faeroe (or Faroe) Islands (Føroyar in Faeroese, and Færøerne in Danish) are a group of small islands in the North Atlantic at a latitude of about 62 degrees north, 07 degrees west. The islands are an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Denmark. They have a total land area of about 1,400 square kilometres and a population of about 48.5 thousand people. For further details, see the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands .
The islands have an excellent official website at http://www.faroeislands.com/ .
The islands are mainly composed of volcanic rocks (principally basalt), forming a dramatic landscape, and a coastline that boasts some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe.
The principal islands in the group are, from south to north:
The highest point on the islands is Slættaratindur, which has a prominence equal to its height of 880m.
Although the fells on the islands do not reach even 1000m in height, the rugged nature of the landscape offers a large selection of fells to climb of relatively significant prominence. For example, there are fourteeen fells with a prominence of at least 600m.
A list of the main fells of the islands can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains_of_the_Faroe_Islands.
The downloadable list below, compiled by Andy Tomkins, is the first known hill-list by prominence for these islands.
A list of the hills of at least 150 metres of prominence is downloadable below.
Listed here:
Mountains & Hills of the Faeroes to 150m of drop/prominence - print-booklet version - see attachment below.
Mountains & Hills of the Faeroes to 150m of drop/prominence - e-booklet version - see attachment below.
Faeroes P150m print-booklet v. 11.15.pdfFaeroes P150m e-booklet v. 11.15.pdf