Tindhólmur near Sorvágur
Dec 8, 2017 2:19:21 GMT -5
Post by Uncle Henry on Dec 8, 2017 2:19:21 GMT -5
Picture Post-card twenty-eight
Legend on the reverse of the card:
A "metre" is a continental unit of measurement, equivalent to about 39 3⁄8 inches. It is defined in terms of "light", a "vacuum", a "path", "travel", and "second" - the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds - so any one interested may look those five entities up and check for his or even her satisfaction.
As Wikipædia tells us, Tindhólmur is an uninhabited islet on the south side of Sørvágsfjørður, west of Vágar in the Faroe Islands. It takes its name from its five peaks, which are named Ytsti, Arni, Lítli, Breiði, Bogdi (Farthest, Eagle, Small, Broad, and Bent). Its area is a quarter of a square mile (which is to say in old Faroese style "two merkur") and its top rises 860 feet above the sea.
Our post-card does not make the insular nature of Tindhólmur plain; here is a photo-graph that does:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tindh%C3%B3lmur
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1gar
Legend on the reverse of the card:
Gjognum Drangin sæst Tindhólmur.
Tindhólmur (262 metres) near Sorvágar.
Tindhólmur (262 metres) near Sorvágar.
A "metre" is a continental unit of measurement, equivalent to about 39 3⁄8 inches. It is defined in terms of "light", a "vacuum", a "path", "travel", and "second" - the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds - so any one interested may look those five entities up and check for his or even her satisfaction.
As Wikipædia tells us, Tindhólmur is an uninhabited islet on the south side of Sørvágsfjørður, west of Vágar in the Faroe Islands. It takes its name from its five peaks, which are named Ytsti, Arni, Lítli, Breiði, Bogdi (Farthest, Eagle, Small, Broad, and Bent). Its area is a quarter of a square mile (which is to say in old Faroese style "two merkur") and its top rises 860 feet above the sea.
Our post-card does not make the insular nature of Tindhólmur plain; here is a photo-graph that does:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tindh%C3%B3lmur
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1gar
