- Saksun
Saksun is a picturesque village near the north-west coast of the Faroese island of
Streymoy .*Population: 34
*Postal code (Zip): FO 436
*Location: coord|62|14|56|N|7|10|33|W|
*Municipality: SaksunarSaksun lies in the bottom of what used to be an inlet of the sea, surrounded by high mountains. The inlet formed a good deep natural harbour, until a storm blocked the inlet with sand. This caused the river that used to run into the inlet to form a freshwater lake where the inlet used to be.
The village has a Church and Museum. The Church was originally built in
Tjornuvik , but in 1858 it was disassembled, carried over the mountains and reassembled in Saksun. The Museum occupies a seventeenth century farm calledDuvugardur .Gallery
ee also
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List of towns in the Faroe Islands External links
* [http://faroeislands.dk/pages/SaksunIndex.htm Faroeislands.dk: Saksun] Images and description of all cities on the Faroe Islands.
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