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The Physical Environment of the Faeroe Islands (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982)
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The Physical Environment of the Faeroe Islands (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982)
Series: Monographiae Biologicae, 46
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G. K. Rutherford The Faeroes were first inhabited by Irish monks in
the year 700 A. D. , yet they have remained insular and isolated
for over 1000 years. In 1948 the Faeroes were still relatively
unknown in the Northern European economic community and were
regarded as an underdeveloped nation. The main occupation was
fishing, as it still is now. No other primary activities existed
other than local fishing and subsistence agriculture. There were no
factories or industries. Enormous development has taken place since
then and this development has created a demand for an inventory of
the Faeroe Island natural resources. Although scientific
investigations have been conducted of the Faeroes since 1673, it
was not until 1969 that Denmarks Geologiske unders0gelse completed
the first detailed geologic study. This report (Rasmussen and
Noe-Nygaard 1970) discusses the Faeroe Islands' Plateau Basalts.
Prior to this investigation little was known about the geology of
this island archipelago. The earlier reports are confined primarily
to a descriptive recording of the bedrock and glacial geology
(Debes 1673, Forchhammer 1824, Grossman and Lomas 1895), botany
(Trevellyan 1835, Ostenfeld 1905), and zoology (Jensen, et al.
1901). General- ized descriptions of the landscape occur briefly
under the topic heading of glacial geology (Geike 1880) during this
period. 0dun (1923) was first to systematically report the overall
character of the Faeroese landscape and his original report has
only recently been elaborated upon by Trap (1968).
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