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Definition of Thorshavn

1. Noun. The administrative center of the Faroe Islands.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thorshavn

Literary usage of Thorshavn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"The titles are as follows :— Stromo island:—(1) thorshavn, the capital; (2) South harbour, thorshavn ; (3) The bridge, thorshavn; (4) The hotel, thorshavn; ..."

2. The Faroes and Iceland: Studies in Island Life by Nelson Annandale, Francis Hugh Adam Marshall (1905)
"Out of a population of well over 15000, between 5000 and 6000 live in thorshavn, the capital. The homes of the rest are scattered round the coasts of the ..."

3. Icelandic Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Frederick W. W. Howell (1893)
"Of the three F's of the Faroes—the fish, and the fowl, and the flesh — the first strikes one at thorshavn everywhere. The rocks by the water are covered ..."

4. Summer Traveling in Iceland: Being the Narrative of Two Journeys Across the by John M. Coles, Edward Delmar Morgan (1882)
"thorshavn, with its turf- roofed houses, white church, and back-ground of green hills, presents a pretty enough picture when viewed from the sea, ..."

5. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1890)
"The entrance to thorshavn is said to be a very ugly one in bad weather, ... thorshavn and the fields immediately adjoining appear to me to furnish a link ..."

6. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1864)
"Having only a quarter of an hour to spare before I was obliged to return over the hill to reach thorshavn in time for the ..."

7. Across Iceland by William Bisiker (1902)
"A few hours later we anchored opposite to thorshavn in the island of Stromo, ... thorshavn is a very quaint and picturesque place, and many are the peculiar ..."

8. The Faröe Islands by Joseph Russell Jeaffreson (1898)
"thorshavn is the capital of the Islands, and is, indeed, the only place in them that deserves the name of a town. It occupies two small tracts of land on ..."

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