This is Faroe Islands

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Soundtrack and Music:
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Footage taken during my great visit to the Faroe Islands. Big thank you to www.VisitFaroeI... for making this dream possible.

[@PatrickDiFruscia]

Just released my new short video featuring only The Faroe Islands ..you might recognize some scenes from my previous video. There is a possibility I will be going back this year and hopefully give it justice even more. Special thanks once again to the talented Clément Demaria for his outstanding musical contribution. Listen to more of his creations here: soundcloud.com/daydreamermusic And also special thanks to visitfaroeislandsfo for making this possible. Hope you like it..Wishing you all a beautiful week.

[@MikeGoodwin]

What amazing scenery. Thank you for sharing and making me educate myself a little more. I just checked the location on Google maps. That is a pretty isolated location.

[@synnveklingenberg]

Just one word... Beautiful...

[@blueravenfire]

really nice video. :)

[@Leyla1952]

Paradise... it's stunning video, love it

[@j.gmo.castrejon3034]

ojala nunca se pierdan =(

[@christinepalk56]

Thanks for sharing a little heaven on Earth

[@costiniucmircea]

beautiful !

[@faroeislands9058]

Fantastic Landscape !!!

[@Fruitdelight123]

Best music ever...such beautiy in every note, every drum beat...please make som more.....♥

[@abdeljabbar98]

It is so beautiful

[@trucha1618xx]

A paradise...

[@eduardoandrade373]

QUE BELEZA !!!

[@DuongDiaLy]

Hi Patrick. I'm Dương from Vietnam. Can I use some shots of this video to make a geographic video about Faroe. Thank you so much and welcome!

[@CarmenCruzLopez]

Hermosos paisajes.

[@zeppelin.1874_]

Well Done Video!

[@MegaFrodi]

Thank you for this awsome video bless :)

[@nanangwira5342]

I like your video. Very like it. Good job.

[@arkadyzz8023]

Piękny film doskonale skomponowany z muzyką... NATURA? Tam od wieków wszystko nadal trwa... mimo zmian klimatycznych- wiatrów, ostrych zim czy globalne ocieplenie... Ps.Pan Bóg stwórca natury dobrze wiedział, kiedy dać tam przydomek swego istnienia,piękności natury jest jakim było. nam dane 20 marca obecnego roku na... Faroe Islands

[@friiJustesen]

I'm Fríði and i'm from Faroe Islands (:

[@paulcomptonpdphotography]

That's was nice

[@trwrestling2825]

Please don't remove this video.

[@jhendin]

He has a website that includes this video: www.difrusciaphotography.com/

[@ovidiudanielilies6585]

amazing, mankind need to respect and prezerve this place! and some other.............

[@Fruitdelight123]

I wish to go there and hail thor my Brother from a cliff afare were the clouds never cease to fly across the sky or the winds were they for ever paly with the hills and clouds to much amaze...

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHWUYYR4nLuWadE abouth the last viking chieftain in faroe island

[@snowball1799]

What was the month when this was filmed? I noticed the flowers, must be spring?

[@joebroart]

hello i am american and would love to live here one day! is it expensive? are the people friendly? is there alot of crime? immigrants? thank you!

[@demonica2197]

1. It can be expensive depending on where you want to live and if you want to learn to speak faroese. 2. Yes (Or that's what i think since i live there) 3. Faroe islands has one of the lowest crime rate in the world. 4. Not that many immigrant are here, but there are a few. Most of them live in the capital, Tórshavn.

[@thepapernator909]

no tsunamis. no erththing. no lighting can hit os it happen one time.yes heres got the live

[@thepapernator909]

but one thing its not son light evry day

[@manuelalves3949]

espectacular

[@87cac]

Faroese as wild as the Japanese but you will learn to know the determination of our team! The grind will soon be a bad memory. The black flag flown proudly in these fjords!! LIVE SEA SHEPHERD! STOP KILL PILOT WHALES !

[@danestolthed6383]

Get educated... Pilot Whales are not an endangered species and quit judging people for what they eat! The Faroese are a proud and noble people who value their traditions and unique culture, why do people like you feel as though you need to change them?

[@87cac]

pilot whales are protected by EU and you do not follow this species!

[@danestolthed6383]

87cac First of all Faroese are NOT a part of the EU, and secondly they harvest Pilot Whales only in the coastal waters of their Islands. Furthermore the "law" in which you're vaguely referring to doesn't prohibit the harvesting of Pilot Whales for the purpose of consumption, but rather EU countries, "must monitor the conservation status of each (marine mammals) species for their protection from dangers like pollution and illegal fishing". The Faroese have kept meticulous conservation records of the Grind (Pilot Whale harvest) that dates back to 1584. Pilot Whale populations have NEVER dropped to a level where they were considered to be a endangered species. You and the "SS" should be ashamed of yourselves, you misjudge the people of the Faroe Islands because they don't share what you consider "moral" values...

[@Zeagods-CyberShadow]

Let's just hope that the toxic trolls leave us the f@&$k alone

[@lukehanna7440]

Beautiful. Nature still prevails, unless you are one of the thousands of dolphins or pilot whales disgustingly slaughtered by the Faroese people!

[@michaelpendlebery9776]

You truly have incredible islands but you have cloaked them with a border that the conscientious can not cross. Sorry 😢

[@asbjrnpoulsen9205]

ouer borders have been sourounded by brittish mines to

[@nsdtr01]

this is the place where innocent whales and dolphins are slaughtered - what no pictures of same???

[@nsdtr01]

translation he does not like blood and slaughter - comments are related to the THIS IS FAROE ISLANDS

[@nsdtr01]

NOPE - these animals are raised for slaughter - whale and dolphins are NOT

[@nsdtr01]

horsefeathers

[@Zeagods-CyberShadow]

You do you bu bu

[@125minden]

One very important part of life on the Faroes has been conveniently omitted, and that's the grindadráp. If you have not already heard, there is a cruel, vicious and greedy whale hunt every summer. Anyone considering going to the Faroe islands - please keep away. You could also be arrested for not reporting Whale and dolphin sightings, in order for the islanders go murder whole pods of whales in one go. Many whale carcasses are discarded, because the islanders take more than what they need. If you notice the islanders are a little bit weird, this is mainly because of the whale meat with high levels of mercury consumed. www.seashepherd.org/faroes/about-campaign/the-grindadrap.html

[@125minden]

***** I can easily dispel each of your points that you claim: *** "The hunt is humane..." The Grind involves chasing a pod of whales for up to an hour or more until they are beached and totally exhausted and very distressed. From there the hook is jammed into their blow holes and then they are dragged up onto the beach with rope tied to the hook, from anywhere up to 20 metres. Finally they are stabbed or cut with a circular tool until they die. All this happens while the crowd cheers, laughing and clapping with children even participating with the animals death. By any bodies definition this is not a quick death. If you try and tell me this is not cruel then you are delusional. Also when animals are killed even in primitive cultures, at least there is some resemblance of respect towards the animals death *** "do you want us to kill half and then let the other half go?" Yes that would be a start, unlike most other cultures that hunt wildlife, they don't kill a complete herd etc and take only what they need - hence Faroese whale hunt is just plain greedy. **** We never take more than we need..." The Grind kills on average 880 whales per year so that's about 50kg per whale and 25kg of blubber. The Faroese government has advised to only eat the meat and blubber 1-2 times a month, and a study has shown that only about 17% of the islanders eat it more than once a month. 47% have said that they rarely or never eat pilot whale. www.diebucht.ch/tl_files/pdf/Pal%20Weihe.pdf For the purposes of this statistic, we can set the average high at 40% of people that eat pilot whale twice a month. The population of the Faroe islands is 49,469. 40% of this number is 19,787 people. A meal of meat consists of roughly .250 kg of meat and .05 kg of blubber. Two meals a month result in a total of 24 meals a year, with a total of 6 kg of meat and 1.2 kg of blubber consumed. This means that every year the Faroese consume 118,722 kg of meat and 23,744.4 kg of blubber. The average catch per year is about 335.720 kg of meat and 167.860 kg of blubber. Each year, 216,998 kg of meat and 144,115.6 kg of blubber disappears. Where does it go to? It appears that twice as much meat disappears than is eaten.Some of the whale meat is sold to tourists in restaurants in the Faroes despite the Faroese saying it is never sold. But even this does not come close to answering the question of where approximately 217 tons of meat and 114 tons of blubber ends up. It is a mystery that the Faroese and the Danish authorities should be obligated to explain. Last year protesters took photos and film of Faroese people dumping whale meat off cliffs into the sea. It appears the Grind happens mainly because they do it perversely for fun. *** " if there is a surplus in the village, it might go to a restaurant or supermarket in Tórshavn, this doesn't mean that it is commercial, though."Some of the whale meat is sold to tourists in restaurants in the Faroes despite the Faroese saying it is never sold. But even this does not come close to answering the question of where approximately 217 tons of meat and 114 tons of blubber ends up. How about checking the menu of the local restaurant and you may find whale meat. Obviously money is changing hands and commercial trade in whale is going on. *** .....so no one is "weird" because of mercury pollutants. Perhaps not weird, though certainly there is a higher incidence of nervous system diseases such as Parkinson's disease, in the local population. Fortunately less and less people in the Faroes are eating Whale meat as they are heeding warnings from your own medical practitioners, even though these medical professionals have been painted as traitors for pointing out the truth. If international protesters don't stop the Grind then eventually it will just die out because no will eat whale meat in the Faroes. So why not just stop killing whales completely if you want to save your population from degenerative diseases? Lastly the whale hunt at times targets endangered species for example: On the 10th August local Faroese media has reported that 2 Beaked (Bottlenose) whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus), who stranded themselves on the beach Sandvík on the south island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands, and had been slaughtered. The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) lists the Beaked whale as threatened with extinction (see Appendix I). There are other cases where international law has been broken, namely the killing of species that are on the Endangered Species (CITES) lists How about The Faroe islands becoming a respectable member of the international community and re joining humanity? All good reasons to stop the Grind now!

[@125minden]

***** Least concern by "every major animal related organization" can you name any? I think the only ones you name are the Faroe related organizations. Which can be trusted as far as they can be thrown. CITES is agreed by the 'international community' which obviously the Faroese chose not be part of. What's also very interesting is the numbers of pilot whales that are estimated by the Faroese. In a news article a couple of days ago the Faroese claim there are 780,000 pilot whales in the North Atlantic. This magical number keeps increasing. Last month they claimed it was 280,000 and the month before that it was 178,000. The fact is that there is no scientific data to support any population estimates. The number of whales according to the IUCN is unknown and the status is insufficient data to form an estimate. The Faroese get around this by simply fabricating population numbers.

[@125minden]

***** "get yourself educated" I think firstly you need to take a reading course in comprehension. I never said bottle nosed dolphin. I did say 2 Beaked Bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus), reported in the Faroese local rag on the 10th August. The fact, this is just another CITES law broken which the Faroese simply don't care about. Check out local Faroese papers over the past 6 months for widely differing numbers as to the estimation of Pilot whales. Their contradicting numbers are all there to suit their own twisted propaganda.

[@125minden]

***** Your argument is not convincing, and I wonder where you get your information from? The Whale in no way has a quick death. How you can justify that the Grind is completely humane and the whales don't suffer in the slightest. Also you have not given me any explanation as to where all the whale meat goes? Whether you dry, cook , poach, fry and eat it tomorrow or in five years time. Its still there. The numbers just don't stack up. The grubby truth in the Faroes, is that whale meat parts, and whole slaughtered whale bodies are just simply dumped. Also to say that locals need to have whale meat to eat, is absurd. The Farose have one of the highest standards of living in the world. I might have had some sympathy more than 100 years ago, but the excuse the Faroese need to kill for food is a lame argument.

[@125minden]

***** The Faroese are also breaking European law. Although the Faroe Islands are a self-governing nation, they are still within the Kingdom of Denmark. The Faroe Islands are not part of the EU, but Denmark is. The European Union bans commercial whale hunting and whale imports by its members. I suggest that by supporting the whale hunting in the Faroe Islands by sending their navy, Denmark has participated in this commercial whale hunting, and so broken the laws of the European Union. The Faroese claim independence, so say the EU laws do not apply to them, but they are happy to accept EU subsidies from Denmark and support from Danish police and Danish navy, which suggests a lack of independence from an EU nation. 86% of Faroese hold Danish passports. How can they have it both ways? Denmark will soon be taken to the European court and will clearly be shown the Faroese are breaking European law.

[@125minden]

The Faroe Islands… Where compassion is a crime. Where an act of kindness can send you to jail. Where simply wearing a Sea Shepherd T-shirt can get you arrested. Where a citizen of the European Union (EU) can be deported by an EU nation for opposing an activity that is in violation of EU regulations. Where a tourist can go to jail for failing to report a pilot whale sighting to the whalers. Where the Danish Navy, the Danish police and the Danish courts defend the killing of pilot whales and dolphins, yet they claim to not be involved. Where 86% of the population hold Danish European Union passports but refuse to live in accordance with EU regulations. Where an average of 216 tons of meat and 144 tons of blubber is unaccounted for every year. The mystery is, where does it go? No one is saying. Where the national airline, Atlantic Airways and the ferries double as whale-spotting sources for whalers. Where a country with the highest per capita income in Europe claims they need to kill whales and dolphins in order to survive. Where they make up convenient laws to enable the killing of whales. Where children are encouraged to poke out the eyeballs of pilot whales and play with dolphin fetuses. Where parents take pictures of their kids mutilating pilot whales and they complain if the pictures appear on the internet. Where hundreds of bodies of whales can be found rotting just below the surface of the sea. Where they strangle puffins and steal their eggs. Where the whale meat is said to be free except tourists can buy it in the restaurants and it’s for sale in the market. Where the Christian community says the whales are a gift from God, though Leviticus expressly forbids the eating of whale meat. Apparently Jesus made a side trip to the Faroes to give them special dispensation. Where the people claim to be independent from Denmark until they need the support of the Danish Navy. Where the people take pride in bathing in blood. Where an hour of stressful pursuit and many minutes of agony accompanied by horrendous screams of pain is described as “humane killing.” Where population numbers change each day without any scientific validation. One day there are 128,000 pilot whales, the next 780,000. The fact is no one knows, except for the guy in Klaksvik with the crystal ball. Where people knowingly and willingly consume meat heavily contaminated with mercury and don’t give a toss, primarily because they eat meat heavily contaminated with mercury.

[@Levi-ey8su]

+mack man Why do you keep spamming?

[@125minden]

+Levi Hammer ......The answer is simple - I want the truth to be told about the Faroe islands.

[@Levi-ey8su]

+mack man Go there. Ask someone who lives there.

[@125minden]

+Levi Hammer Yeah right - go there and listen to out of date ideas from the 19th century. I don't need to go there as it will just confirm that The Faroe islanders are fixated with tradition, while the world has moved on from the unnecessary slaughter of cetaceans.

[@Levi-ey8su]

mack man So whales are different than majestic land creatures getting slaughtered every day? Its a traditional meal its a part of our lives. You know we all could give up eating meat. Though it is pretty hard for humanity to give up meat.