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Frammi við Gjónna

Frammi við Gjónna
Village
Frammi við Gjónna is located in Denmark Faroe Islands
Frammi við Gjónna
Frammi við Gjónna
Location in the Faroe Islands
Coordinates: 62°8′11.76″N 7°1′19.34″W / 62.1366000°N 7.0220389°W / 62.1366000; -7.0220389Coordinates: 62°8′11.76″N 7°1′19.34″W / 62.1366000°N 7.0220389°W / 62.1366000; -7.0220389
State  Kingdom of Denmark
Country  Faroe Islands
Island Streymoy
Municipality Kvívík
Population (1 January 2016)
 • Total 0
Time zone GMT
 • Summer (DST) EST (UTC+1)

Frammi við Gjónna is an abandoned village in the Faroe Islands.

A farm was established in the village as a settlement village in 1815, but there was probably already settlement at the site even earlier. The farm is located next to some streams near Lake Leynar in the Municipality of Kvívík on Streymoy. Frammi við Gjónna is a typical example of a Faroese farm, where the residents lived in a long stone house with a grass roof and subsisted by raising sheep. Today the farm is abandoned, but the flat fields below the farm, near Lake Leynar, are cultivated. Frammi við Gjónna was used as the motif for a postage stamp engraved by Czesław Słania and issued by the Faroese postal service in 1987.


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