Mykines the remotest part of the remote Faroe Islands

Published: Nov. 26, 2021, 12:38 a.m.

Featuring: Steve Collins & Oda Andreasen of Go Local Tours in the Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islandsare a far flung autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, located in the North Atlantic Ocean about halfway before Norway and Iceland. There are 18 inhabited islands in the chain, and Mykines if the furthest west of these. This remote island is simply stunning! It is surrounded by precipitous cliffs which plunge straight down to the wild North Atlantic seas. A breeze on Mykines would be considered as a gale anywhere else. In fact, the winds can roar with such ferocity the local lighthouse is actually tied down with cables.

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