Vágur (Danish name: Våg meaning Bay) is a town on the Faroe Island of Suðuroy.

Population: 1452 (31st December 2002)

Postcode: FO 900

Municipality: Vágs kommuna

Location:

Soccer association: VB (Vágs Bóltfelag)

Vágur is situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord, and dates from the fourteenth century. Expansion has meant that the nearby town of Nes is now a suburb of Vágur. The town has a slipway, a fleet of fishing vessels and a filleting factory.

The first hydroelectric power station in the Faroe Islands was built in Vágur in 1920. It is now supplemented by a modern diesel power station on the south side of the fjord.

Vágur Church was built in 1927.

There is a memorial near the main road through Vágur commemorating the efforts of Nólsoyar-Poul Poulson, the nineteenth-century Faroese hero, poet and genius. He believed that the monopoly trading scheme was seriously restricting the economic potential of the Faroe Islands and set about organising opposition and resistance to it. Although he failed to abolish the monopolies, his actions were the start of a process which eventually led to the abolition of monopoly trading in 1856.

See also

• List of towns in the Faroe Islands

References