Kaldbak

Kaldbak (Danish: Kalbak) is a village in the Faroe Islands, on Streymoy's east coast and part of Tórshavn Municipality. The village lies on the northern side of the fjord Kaldbaksfjørður.

Kaldbak
Village
Kaldbak, Faroe Islands
Kaldbak
Location in the Faroe Islands
Coordinates: 62°3′47″N 6°49′34″W
State Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country Faroe Islands
IslandStreymoy
MunicipalityTórshavn Municipality
Population
 (1 January 2006)
 • Total221
Time zoneGMT
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (EST)
Postal code
FO 180
ClimateCfc

History

Excavations show that Kaldbak was already inhabited by the 11th century. The parish church in Kaldbak was built in 1835. The village was only connected to the Streymoy road system in 1980.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Kaldbak include:

  • Knút Wang (1917–1976), journalist and politician
gollark: Depends what you mean by "communism"?
gollark: The anarchocommunist-or-whatever idea of everyone magically working together for the common good and planning everything perfectly and whatnot also sounds nice but is unachievable.
gollark: I mean, theoretically there are some upsides with central planning, like not having the various problems with dealing with externalities and tragedies of the commons (how do you pluralize that) and competition-y issues of our decentralized market systems, but it also... doesn't actually work very well.
gollark: I do, but that isn't really what "communism" is as much as a nice thing people say it would do.
gollark: I don't consider it even a particularly admirable goal. At least not the centrally planned version (people seem to disagree a lot on the definitions).

See also
  • List of towns in the Faroe Islands

References
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