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Faroe Islands
/ˈfɛəɹəʊ ˌaɪləndz/
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What does Faroe Islands mean?
proper noun
- An archipelago and self-governing autonomous territory of Denmark, in the North Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland.
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The wingless auk, Alca impennis, a bird remarkable for its excessive fatness, was very abundant two or three hundred years ago in the Faroe Islands, and on the whole Scandinavian seaboard.
Thus Graba estimates that about one-fifth of the guillemots in the Faroe Islands consist of a variety so well marked, that it was formerly ranked as a distinct species under the name of Uria lacrymans.