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Place in News: Faroe Islands

Posted on September 17, 2021 by admin1  1181

In News

  • Recently, approx 1,400 Dolphins were killed as a part of old tradition in Faroe Islands.

About

  • The “grindadrap” is a practice whereby hunters first surround the whales with a wide semi-circle of fishing boats and then drive them into a bay to be beached and slaughtered.

Faroe Islands

  • It is an archipelago, in the North Atlantic ocean, located 320 kilometres northwest of Scotland, and about halfway between Norway and Iceland.
  • An archipelago is a group of islands closely scattered in a body of water. Usually, this body of water is the ocean, but it can also be a lake or river.
  • Like Greenland, it is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. 
    • It is a part of the Nordic countries
  • The terrain is rugged; the climate is subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc)—windy, wet, cloudy, and cool.

Scandinavian and Nordic countries

  • The use of the word ‘Skandinavien’ is common in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish languages because that word refers to the ancient territories of the Norsemen: Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. 
  • Faroe Island and Iceland were part of the Norsemen territory as well.
  • ‘Nordic’ is a term derived from the local Scandinavian-language word ‘Norden’ which in literal terms means, the northern islands. 
  • Nordic countries include Finland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands (an archipelago of islands as an autonomous country within the kingdom of Denmark).
  • These countries share similar flags, languages, and many cultural traits.

Source: IE

 
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