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Faeroe Islands

or Far·oe Is·lands

[ fair-oh ]

plural noun

  1. a group of 21 islands in the North Atlantic Ocean between Great Britain and Iceland, belonging to Denmark but having extensive home rule. 540 square miles (1,400 square kilometers). : Torshavn.

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Oes are violent whirlwinds off the Faeroe Islands, said at times to raise the water in syphons.

It is gregarious and was, even is now, much hunted in the Faeroe Islands.

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