Virtual: Armchair Tour of the Faroe Islands with Joanne Pearson
Landscape photographer Joanne Pearson will be our guide through this armchair tour of the Faroe Islands, hosted by the Bacon Free Library.
The rugged and remote Faroe Islands–an archipelago of 18 islands located in the North Atlantic between Iceland, Norway, and the Hebrides–have a long and rich history. Settled by Irish monks around 600 AD, colonized by Vikings in the ninth century, and Christianized around 1000, the Faroe Islands are now an autonomous territory of the kingdom of Denmark. Formed by volcanic activity and reshaped by ice age glaciers, mountains rise steeply and sharply from the sea. Small villages in the rounded valleys of the coastline appear below you as you round a bend on a narrow road or emerge from one of the numerous tunnels that now connect almost all of the islands and some of the harder to reach villages. Cascading waterfalls, flocks of sheep, and dramatic scenery abound.
