Kaldbaksbotnur is a village on the island of Streymoy

Streymoy

Streymoy is the largest and most populated island of the Faroe Islands. The capital, Tórshavn is located there. The name means "island of currents".- Geography :...

 in the Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...

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Geography

Kaldbaksbotnur is located on the east coast of Streymoy. The village consists two farms. One farm is located in the bottom of Kaldbaksfjørður western side of the river and this farm is also called Northern part of Sund. The other is on the eastern side of the river and relates to Kaldbak . When the road to Tórshavn

Tórshavn

Tórshavn is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the north west of the town lies the high mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the high Kirkjubøreyn...

 opened in 1980 this connected both Kaldbaksbotnur and Kaldbak

Kaldbak

Kaldbak is a village in the Faroe Islands, on Streymoy's east coast.*Population: 219*Postal code : FO 180*Location: *Municipality: TorshavnarExcavations show that Kaldbak was inhabited already in the 11th century....

 to the island's road network.

In 1992 the 2816m tunnel Kollfjarðartunnilin was opened from Kaldbaksbotnur to Kollafjørður

Kollafjørður

Kollafjørður is a village in the Faroe Islands located on the island of Streymoy at 62°7′6″N, 6°54′20″W with a population of 822. Its postal code is FO 410. It is part of the Tórshavnar municipality.-See also:* List of towns in the Faroe Islands...

 and this is now the main route from Tórshavn to the villages in the north of the island.

Throughout the 1990s Kaldbaksbotnur was served by bus route 4 operated by the blue Bygdaleiðir country buses which passed through the village on their route from Tórshavn to Kaldbak. Route 5, added in 2001, also ran from Tórshavn through Kaldbaksbotnur to the township of Kollafjørður

Kollafjørður

Kollafjørður is a village in the Faroe Islands located on the island of Streymoy at 62°7′6″N, 6°54′20″W with a population of 822. Its postal code is FO 410. It is part of the Tórshavnar municipality.-See also:* List of towns in the Faroe Islands...

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There is a Danish Navy

Royal Danish Navy

The Royal Danish Navy is the sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese territorial waters...

 base in the mountains above Kaldbaksbotnur in a valley called Mjørkadalur

Mjørkadalur

Mjørkadalur is a place on the Faroese island Streymoy in the Tórshavnar municipality. It is the site of a Danish military installation and NATO early warning radar system. Its official population is 1. Mjørkadalur has no postal code....

 (Fog Valley). On the top of the mountains there is a NATO early-warning radar

Radar

Radar is an object-detection system which uses radio waves to determine the range, altitude, direction, or speed of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. The radar dish or antenna transmits pulses of radio...

 system.

Geology

A sample of stalagmitic

Stalagmite

A stalagmite is a type of speleothem that rises from the floor of a limestone cave due to the dripping of mineralized solutions and the deposition of calcium carbonate. This stalagmite formation occurs only under certain pH conditions within the underground cavern. The corresponding formation on...

 white Mordenite

Mordenite

Mordenite is a zeolite mineral with the chemical formula, Al2Si10O24·7H2O. It is a zeolite. According to Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry , it is one of the six most abundant zeolites and is used commercially....

 (Na₂CaK₂)Al₂Si₁₀O₂₄·7H₂O) from Kaldbaksbotnur was collected by Volker Betz and can be seen at http://www.mindat.org/photo-177823.html

Kaldbaksbotnur in music

Kaldbaksbotnur is referred to in a song Útsetin performed by Teitur Lassen

Teitur Lassen

Teitur is a Faroese singer-songwriter. On 3 March 2007, he was awarded Best Male Singer at the Danish Music Awards.The word teitur is Old Norse and means happy. In Modern Faroese, it is archaic but used as a male given name....

 on his 2007 album Káta Hornið. It is performed in the Faroese language

Faroese language

Faroese , is an Insular Nordic language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 25,000 Faroese people in Denmark and elsewhere...

but the extract below (the 3rd and 4th verses out of eight) includes an English translation:

eg vendi aftur til ódnarveður vánaligar fløguútgávur eina árliga blokering av Kaldbaksbotni hampafólk í samkomu sum eru útbúgvin í bíbliu men rodna tá eg syngi um samkynd og nekarar

I return to stormy weather bad album releases an annual blockade of Kaldbaksbotnur decent folk in congregations who have Bible educations but blush when I sing about gays and negros

External links

• Faroeislands.dk: Kaldbaksbotnur Images and description of all cities on the Faroe Islands.