My Faroe-Stamp’s collection

Geography

Suduroy

Suduroy is the most southward island of the Faeroes, characterized by two deep fiords and by the two cities of Tvøroyri and Vagur.

In the past, there was a lucrative production of coal, today replaced with oil. However, in the coal mines near the village of Hyalba, the extraction goes on with the same old techniques, although in modest quantities.

In Suduroy, and in particular in the church of the village pf Famjin, is kept the first Faeroese flag, created by two students (Jens Olivur Lisberg and Emil Joensen) in 1919.

In the village of Samba was instead born the poet Pol F. Joensen.

In this stamp, it is reproduced the Beinisvørd cliff, the most famous natural monument of Suduroy.

In 1895, J. Mortensen bought the Swedish ship “Smirl”, thus starting the regular connection between the islands of the archipelago. This connection continues to this day, definitely more efficiently, with other three ships, all called “Smirl/Smyrl” (the Faeroese name of a species of hawk)