Langasandur () is a village located on the Faroese island of

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in the municipality of Sunda. The village was settled in 1938, the name Langasandur means Longbeach.

Whaling station

In 1894, the first whaling station in the Faroe Islands, was built at Gjánoyri, about 1 km south of the village. It was constructed by the Norwegian Hans Albert Grøn from

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, he sailed one of his decommissioned whaling stations from Finnmarken, and set it up in Gjánoyri, and started whaling with his boat Urd. The first whaling season, lasted from 24 June, when the first whale was shot, to 9 September when Grøn returned to

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with 940 barrels of whale oil, and 5 tonnes of

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, 46 whales were shot. In 1901, Grøn built the first industrial factory in the country, it was located right next to the whaling station, and produced

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to increase earnings from the whales, which before, only gave

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, and almost free whale meat to the locals. The station closed down in 1925. The boats connected to the station were: Urd (1894-1911), Skuld (1897-1911), Funding (1914), Leif (1914), Dominion I (1920) and Norman I (1920)

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Populated places in the Faroe Islands {{faroes-geo-stub

Whaling station

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