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Eiði

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State
  
Kingdom of Denmark

Island
  
Eysturoy

Time zone
  
GMT

Population
  
669 (2016)

Team
  
EB/Streymur

Constituent country
  
Faroe Islands

Municipality
  
Eiði

Zip
  
FO 470

Local time
  
Tuesday 7:52 PM

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Weather
  
6°C, Wind S at 13 km/h, 87% Humidity

Eiði [[ˈaiːjɪ]] (local pronunciation: [[ˈɔiːjɪ]]) (Danish: Ejde) is a large village located on the north-west tip of Eysturoy, Faroe Islands.

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Its name means isthmus in the Faroese language. The town has a population of 669 inhabitants. Eiði was settled by vikings in the 9th century AD. In the center of the village there is a large stone church from 1881.

Sports

The village's football team is EB/Streymur. It was founded 1993 as a merger between Eiðis Bóltfelag and Ítróttarfelagið Streymur.

Geography

Within walking distance of Eiði is the 343-meter-high promontory Eiðiskollur, from the top of which a beautiful view can be had over the sea and the islands, including a view down onto Risin og Kellingin, two legendary rocks that rise 75 meters up from the sea.
A couple of kilometers southeast of Eiði is Lake Eiði, a dammed lake. The water from the dam supplies a hydroelectric power station below. At Eiði, there is a LORAN-C station. The mast of the facility may be the tallest structure on the Faroe Islands.

References

Eiði Wikipedia