This led to a great increase in bed capacity in hotels and B&Bs, and tourist numbers started rocketing. The fact that people could get in contact with the local people in this way, along with the slightly [...] Trade Council and Tourist Board in the beginning of this year. This was done in the realisation of the fact that development of trade and tourism can depend on each other in many ways. This new organisation [...] that our country is a small archipelago in the middle of the big ocean in the periphery of western society makes us quite unique and special. Many consider islands in the ocean to be exotic and romantic by
the people in the world have an affinity for the whales and dolphins. Most of the world feels their uniqueness and most of the world values these wondrous creatures alive. Most of the world views the “grind” [...] do so, we still may dock our ship in Torshavn in Saturday, August 13 to invite people onboard for discussion with the Captain and crew. In the meantime, for anyone in the Faeroes who wants to know why [...] the Faeroes – the camera! There is no place for this kind of barbaric tradition in the world of the 21st Century, in a world where species extinction is escalating, where the oceans are dying, and where
Our geopolitical neighbourhood in the Arctic and North Atlantic has been characterised by security, stability, and prosperity. But in reflecting on the state of our world today, it is impossible to ignore [...] of the sea and well-regulated international trade for setting the stage for economic prosperity and international stability. Not least in much of the Arctic and the North Atlantic. Dear friends In a world [...] Arctic does not, of course, exist in a vacuum. And we cannot be but concerned about the destabilising effects of wars on the European continent and the Middle East on world affairs, including Arctic affairs
for example. Born in Copenhagen, the son of a Danish Lutheran minister, he was raised in the Faroes. As one could well imagine, growing up in the Faroes Jónas was quite at home on the sea and eventually acquired [...] found Rome. A few odd centuries later in 1639, Jónas Bronck sailed westward across the Atlantic in his sturdy Fire of Troy and settled a bit of land in the new world that would later be known as The Bronx [...] walk along the street in Tórshavn commemorating the intrepid Jónas Bronck and his incredible adventures long ago in the new world. Michael Paul Reveal holds a juris doctorate in law from the University
all around the Faroes. In every Flag Day speech, in every village, on almost every island today, the role of Britain in our flag’s official history will be remembered. Being in Scotland gives us the chance [...] struggle for our own flag has been all about: To become an equal part of the world. Taking our own responsibilities in the world together with the diverse peoples and nations around the globe. Respecting [...] which we see in the ongoing atrocities around the world today. Where a flag at half-mast marking the mourning of lost loved ones and unthinkable suffering can be countered by another flag in a different
several oil companies since delivery in Feburary 2000 and has experience from some of the most sensitive and harsh environment areas in the world. The vessel has worked in a range of water depths from app [...] Smedvig has approximately 30 years of experience from drilling operations in the Noth Sea and surrounding harsh environment areas in the north. The company includes approximately 3000 highly skilled and [...] hull. West Navion is less dependent on weather conditions, able to operate in all waters, arctic and tropical, and can operate in any water depth where oil and gas are produced. West Navion is operated by
the occasion when the Faroese community in the UK has come of age. John Rajani the newly appointed as representative in Britain had invited Faroese people living in the UK as well as those with Faroese [...] change and the focus of Faroese interests in the UK has moved south to London. The great days evoked in ?Tevatn og Breyð? of Faroese ships landing Ice Fish in Aberdeen are long gone. The connection provided [...] their identity and links with their homeland in the most difficult of circumstances. Travelling home in the 50?s and 60?s involved either long expeditions by sea via Denmark or Shetland or the hit and miss
inhabitants, mainly in leisure and welfare purposes. Benefits for the community 30 years after first oil was discovered in the Northern North Sea, Shetland is the envy of every local authority in Scotland and [...] sort of ideal-world-socialism? Far from it! Wealth is visible in the amount of new houses being built, in the size and the age of cars cruising the highway-like road network, and is expressed in the general [...] have been drilled in the Faroese sector, and none was successful. Also, it has been made clear by the Faroese authorities that it was their intention to land Faroese oil in Faroe in an attempt to gain
doorstep in the early 1990?s. Instead Britain is finally carrying out constitutional reform in a conscious attempt to adapt to its modern place in the world. New centres of poser have been created in Scotland [...] they pressed their outrageously unfair claim for sovereignty on sub-sea resources in far into Faroese waters. Commenting on this in his own inimitable way, the then Danish Foreign Minister, Uffe Elleman-Jensen [...] Dock in Grimsby when old Hákun Djurhuus stepped off a trawler to pursue fishery negotiations with the British in the 1960?s. Neither was there much recognition of Atli Dam?s status when he was in Britain
Iceland. We are approaching the wider world, not least the EU, in many ways to engage in negotiations and deals, which we think will provide better opportunities in the future. - - - - Regarding a coming oil [...] hand we use great amounts of oil on land on heating and in cars, and on the sea in our vast fishing fleet. We are aware of the serious challenges in this regard, and will do our utmost to combine an emerging [...] constitute a special territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Situated between Scotland and Iceland, the Faroes are together with Shetland situated in the area, which is known in oil circles as the Atlantic Margin