Toftir

Toftir
Village
Toftir in late June 2004
Toftir in late June 2004
Toftir is located in Denmark Faroe Islands
Toftir
Toftir
Location in the Faroe Islands
Coordinates: 62°5′20″N 6°44′8″W / 62.08889°N 6.73556°W / 62.08889; -6.73556
State Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country Faroe Islands
IslandEysturoy
MunicipalityNes Municipality
Population
 (January 2024)[1]
 • Total1,003
Time zoneGMT
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (EST)
Postal code
FO 650
ClimateCfc

Toftir (Danish: Tofte) is a village in Nes Municipality on the island of Eysturoy, in the Faroe Islands. It is part of a chain of villages stretching over a distance of 10 kilometres on the east side of Skálafjørður (fjord) on Eysturoy island. The highest hill in Toftir, called Húkslond, is 129 metres high, and Nes Municipality is the only area in the Faroes which has no mountains above 200 metres.

The Lake Toftir area was the first area in the Faroe Islands to become a Nature reserve in the 1980s, and in 2006 Nes Municipality, in cooperation with neighbouring Runavík Municipality, joined a network of local authorities in the Nordic countries working to halt the loss of biodiversity in their local areas.[2]

  1. ^ Population, municipalities and villages Statistics Faroe Islands
  2. ^ Local contributions to meet the 2010 target to halt the loss of biodiversity, http://www.dirnat.no/content.ap?thisId=500026558.