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Kaldbak

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State
  
Kingdom of Denmark

Island
  
Streymoy

Postal code
  
FO 180

Local time
  
Saturday 1:41 AM

Municipality
  
Tórshavn Municipality

Constituent country
  
Faroe Islands

Time zone
  
GMT

Climate
  
Cfc

Population
  
221 (1 Jan 2006)

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Weather
  
-1°C, Wind NE at 11 km/h, 64% Humidity

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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.

Contents

Map of Kaldbak, Faroe Islands

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
  • References

    Kaldbak Wikipedia