Norðdepil

Norðdepil
Village
Norðdepil on a cloudy October day
Norðdepil Location in the Faroe Islands
Coordinates: 62°17′51″N 6°31′32″W / 62.29750°N 6.52556°W / 62.29750; -6.52556Coordinates: 62°17′51″N 6°31′32″W / 62.29750°N 6.52556°W / 62.29750; -6.52556
State	Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country	Faroe Islands
Island	Borðoy
Municipality	Hvannasund
Founded	1866
Population (1 January 2009)
• Total	171
Time zone	GMT
• Summer (DST)	EST (UTC+1)
Postal code	FO 730
Climate	Cfc

Norðdepil (pronounced [ˈnɔɹːdeːpɪl]; Danish: Norddeble) is a town on the east coast of the island of Borðoy in the Norðoyar Region of the Faroe Islands.

Norðdepil was founded in 1866. Its school opened in 1895.

August 18, 1941 around noon, a German Junker Ju 88, crashed, in heavy fog, into the mountainside above the village.

Norðdepil has been connected with the town of Hvannasund on Viðoy by a dike with a road on top since 1963. Because the two communities are located directly across from each other on opposite shores, they often act as one community.
Since 1967, two single-lane tunnels have connected Norðdepil with the regional city of Klaksvík.

Immediately bordering Norðdepil to its north is the abandoned settlement Fossá, of which nothing remains. Fossá was named after some waterfalls.
Further north on the east coast of Borðoy there is a road going from Norðdepil to the abandoned hamlet Múli.

In 1897 the whaling station Norddeble was constructed by Andorsen & Neumann, but whaling activity didn't start until 1898. Among the first owners was Peder Michelsen who had been an accomplished gunner on the boat Urd, with Grøn at Gjánoyri. And for the first time we see the company Chr. Salvesen & Co in the Faroes, the company which later started up the station Við Áir. The station started with one boat Norddeble.

The well known Faroese Sverri Patursson was one trip with Norddeble in 1899.

The station was only active part of the first season 1898, but 54 whales were shot, which gave 1316 barrels of whale oil, in 1899 the station processed about 60 whales, of these were 26 blue whales, and got around 1700 barrels.