Our next stop was the Island of Kunoy. Historically, this rugged island had three very small settlements, Kunoy on the west, and Haraldssund and Skarš on the east.

Skarš, however, got abandoned around 1920, since in 1913 almost all of the men in the village died in a fishing accident.

The remaining villages got somewhat restablized by the creation of yet another tunnel and a causeway, now making it a relatively short drive from Kunoy back to Klaksvik.

As you emerge from the tunnel, you get a great view of Kalsoy (although the weather was quite dismal):



The Faroe Islands (somewhat guided by Denmark) have had quite the transformation by the use of civil engineering. Many towns used to be utterly dependent on their harbor and boats (often manually rowed) to get basic good and mail, and now most of these towns are well connected by a series of tunnels, bridges, and causeways. Indeed, Kunoy is now only a short drive from Klaksvik.

But there's a bit of a downside to all this development: several towns we visited all had a near-derelict harbor that's only seldomly used now; the maritime way of life has started to disappear:



Kunoy is wedged between some very steep and tall cliffs and the sea, making it a bit surprisingly to know that back in the day, the residents of Haraldssund and Skarš used to walk here over the mountains for church:



And, like I saw back in Torshavn, the Faroese like elaborate tombstones: