* Atlantic Airways, a Faroese airline company

The service was operated by the Faroese company Smyril Line but has now been discontinued.

Calls for the creation of a Faroese airline company began in the early 1980s.

The aim of the new airline company was to build up a Faroese aviation industry on a commercial basis and to ensure the Faroe Islands an air connection with the outside world.

Initially, the helicopter service was a standalone company, SL Helicopters, but the decision to concentrate Faroese aviation into one firm led the helicopter department becoming part of Atlantic Airways in 1994.

The Faroese government has decided on a privatisation process and has sold off 33 % of the company in the first bidding round.

The network of blue Bygdaleiðir rural buses ( as well as the ferries ) is operated by Strandfaraskip Landsins on behalf of the Faroese government, which provides subsidies.

The Faroese government ( Mentamálaráðið ) and the Sunda Municipality are restoring it together with Søvn Landsins, they will make it into a maritime museum.

The newest developments of the Faroese transportation network are the sub-sea tunnels.

Faroese uses ⟨ g ⟩ to represent, in addition to, and also uses it to indicate a glide.

In addition, there are art exhibitions, folk music, and Faroese chaindance.

In addition to his contributions to the written standard of Faroese, he was also a known folklorist.

In addition to general cargo for the British garrison in the Faroes, Sauternes was also carrying 22, 500 Danish kroner minted in the United Kingdom for use by the Faroese, since Denmark had been occupied by the Germans and was not sending any coin.

He was a Lutheran parish priest in Kvívík and a rural dean in Nes, on the Faroese island of Eysturoy, before settling in Denmark in 1878.

* 1898 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( d. 1968 )

Icelandic and Faroese have preaspirated ; some scholars interpret these as consonant clusters as well.

The situation remains similar in modern Faroese and Icelandic, but in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, the enclitics have become endings.

An estimated 23, 000 people in Denmark proper are ethnic Faroese, while 19, 000 Greenlanders live permanently in Denmark.

Many of these use the Faroese and Greenlandic languages, respectively, as their first language.

Danish is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish crown territories of the Faroe Islands ( where it is also an official language after Faroese ) and Greenland ( where, however, the only official language since 2009 is Kalaallisut ), as well as the former crown holding of Iceland.

Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group, while the old Norwegian dialects before the influence of Danish and Bokmål is classified as a West Norse language together with Faroese and Icelandic.

A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian and Swedish into a Mainland Scandinavian group while Icelandic and Faroese are placed in a separate category labelled Insular Scandinavian.

* 1896 – Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student, designer of the Flag of the Faroe Islands ( d. 1920 )

* 1908 – Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( d. 1987 )

:* Faroese uses acute accents and other special letters.

* Faroese.

Non-Faroese accented letters are not added to the Faroese alphabet.

Eth ( Ð, ð ; also spelled edh or eð ) is a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese ( in which it is called edd ), and Elfdalian.

In Faroese, ð is not assigned to any particular phoneme and appears mostly for etymological reasons ; however, it does show where most of the Faroese glides are, and when the ð is before r it is, in a few words, pronounced.

In the Icelandic and Faroese alphabets, ð follows d.

The early details of Faroese history are rather nebulous.

The Faroese ethnic group is of primarily Norse Viking descent and Scottish.

Little is known about Faroese history up until the 14th century.

The main historical source for this period is the 13th century work Færeyinga Saga ( Saga of the Faroese ), and it is disputed as to how much of this work is historical fact.

These Norse-Gaels had intermarried with the local Gaelic speaking people in Britain, a feature that is still visible in the Faroese genes today, which prove to be mixed Scandinavian-British.

King Sverre of Norway was brought up in the Faroe, being stepson of a Faroese man, and relative to Roe, bishop of the islands.

The 14th century saw the start of what would prove to be a long era of foreign encroachment in the Faroese economy.

At this time trading regulations were set up so that all Faroese commerce had to pass through Bergen, Norway in order to collect customs tax.

In May 2008 the Government agreed to buy Toll NZ's rail and ferry operations for $ 665 million, and renamed the operating company KiwiRail.

The company also built the steam ferry Jemima which entered service in 1831.

As a result of increasing traffic the ferry company investigated twin ferry operation in 1905.

** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

Its main operator is the DPmB company ( Brno City Transport Company ) which also operates a ferry route serving mainly for recreational purposes at the Brno Dam Lake, and for interested also a tourist minibus providing a brief tour of the city.

On 29 June 2002 Greek authorities captured an injured suspect, Savvas Xiros, following a failed bombing attempt on the Minoan Flying Dolphins ferry company in Piraeus.

* Matilda Cruises, an Australian ferry company

* Minoan Lines, a Greek ferry company

Hendrik-Jan Spijker died in 1907 when the ferry he was on when returning from England sank, and this loss led to the bankruptcy of the original company.

Silja Line is a Finnish cruiseferry brand operated by the Estonian ferry company AS Tallink Grupp, for car and passenger traffic between Finland and Sweden.

The new company started out with used ships which weren't particularly well-fitted for the role they were meant for, but that was about to change when in 1961 Silja took delivery of the new, the first purpose-built car-passenger ferry in the northern Baltic Sea.

A high-speed passenger ferry is operated in summer by the French company Manche Iles Express to Jersey.

Early investments in steam included co-founding the steam ferry company in Halifax harbour and an investment in the pioneering steamship Royal William.

In that same year, at the recommendation of the U. S. Army, a ferry across the Loup was installed ; contemporary documents suggest that the Mitchell company had failed to act on its right to operate such a ferry.

* Coopérative de transport maritime et aérien, the ferry company serving the Magdalen Islands

Hirtshals is the Danish hometown for the Norwegian ferry company, Color Line.

The ferry to Gothenburg, Sweden, from " Newcastle " ( actually North Shields ) in northern England ( currently run by the Danish company DFDS Seaways ), ceased at the end of October 2006 " DFDS scraps Newcastle-Gothenburg line ", The Local, 7 September 2006: " Danish shipping company DFDS Seaways is to scrap the only passenger ferry route between Sweden and Britain, with the axing of the Gothenburg-Newcastle route at thekey route for Scottish tourist traffic from Sweden and Norway.

A high-speed passenger ferry is operated in summer by the French company Manche Iles Express to Diélette in the commune of Flamanville, Manche in France, and to St Peter Port, Guernsey.

** Ferry services in Mediterranéa: Veolia recently bought 28 % of the Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée, a previously state-owned ferry company.