Faroe

Until 1952, the place was called the Faroe Islands, which is not nearly as cool as the Faeroe Islands, which became its name because of all that cod.

Your Disgusting Head Haggis-On-Whey 2004

Until 1952, the place was called the Faroe Islands, which is not nearly as cool as the Faeroe Islands, which became its name because of all that cod.

Your Disgusting Head Haggis-On-Whey 2004

Until 1952, the place was called the Faroe Islands, which is not nearly as cool as the Faeroe Islands, which became its name because of all that cod.

Your Disgusting Head Haggis-On-Whey 2004

Had there been even the slightest reference to it in the newspapers, Canon Beresford, instead of returning home, would have gone farther afield to an Orkney Island or the Shetland group, or, perhaps, to one of those called Faroe, which do not appear on ordinary maps but are believed by geographers to exist.

Lalage's Lovers George A. Birmingham 1907

In three hundred large-format pages, 60 million Frenchmen merit a single paragraph, while the fifty thousand Vlachs of the Balkans and the fifty thousand Faroe Islanders of Denmark receive careful dissection over many pages.4 And why not?

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Vaccinologists also knew that ethylmercury—the form present in vaccines—was less toxic than methylmercury, which caused the tragedies in Minamata and Iraq and was the subject of the studies in the Seychelles and the Faroe Islands.30

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

A co-founder of Greenpeace, Watson was picking up volunteer crew and restocking the Steve Irwin in preparation for a trip to protest against whaling in the Faroe Islands when he was served with the writ.

'Eco-pirate' Paul Watson is in danger of losing his boat 2011

In the Seychelles, researchers from the University of Rochester found no difference in children whose mothers had consumed a significant amount of methylmercury during pregnancy; in the Faroe Islands study, there was some evidence of slight cognitive defects when children were tested at seven years of age.

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

Wetterberg argues that together the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, with the three micro territories the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Aland), will be stronger and more stable and prosperous than they are on their own.

Is a federal Nordic state on the cards? Eirikur Bergmann 2010

Ever since the Kalmar Union of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden – reaching to Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney – collapsed in 1523, the idea of reinstating some sort of a supra-national Nordic state regularly crops up.

Is a federal Nordic state on the cards? Eirikur Bergmann 2010