Hiking Faroe Islands
The Kallur lighthouse on a green ridge above Atlantic sea cliffs
Discover the Faroes

Nature

Basalt laid down by fire, carved by ice and finished by the Atlantic.

A steep green Faroese gorge with a stream stepping down toward the valley floor

Waterfalls

Water that falls straight from the mountain into the ocean.

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A flat-topped Faroese mountain of layered basalt terraces above a green valley

Mountains

Layered basalt terraces and the 340 peaks of the archipelago.

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A wide glacial valley in the Faroe Islands with basalt walls opening toward the sea

Geology

Sixty million years of lava, ice and Atlantic weather.

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A purple heath spotted orchid flowering in wet Faroese grassland

Wildflowers

Marsh marigold, thrift, orchids and the summer moor.

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Alpine lady's mantle growing low among moss on a Faroese mountainside

Plants

A treeless flora shaped entirely by wind and sheep.

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A yellow waxcap mushroom growing among grass and moss in the Faroese outfield

Mushrooms

Autumn fungi of the outfield and the old turf walls.

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