Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.2004, Qupperneq 47

WORKS IN ENGLISH FROM AND ABOUT THE FAROE ISLANDS
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078: Bleak Islands Isolated; Men-o’-War
Pass Them By
in: The Christian Science Monitor, Febr. 13,
1947, p. 11, 1 b/w-photograph
<A brief description of the islands>
079: Bloch, Dorete/Joensen, Hans Pauli:
Faroese Pilot Whaling - conditions, practice
and superstition
in: Vestergaard, Torben A. (ed.): Shamanism
and Traditional Beliefs (= North Atlantic
Studies, vol. 4, no. 1+2). Aarhus (SNAI-North
Atlantic Publications) 2001, pp. 57-72, 10 fig-
ures, 7 lables, references
<An examination of the circumstances which make
a successful pilot whale hunt possible and of the
superstition connected with whales and whaling>
080: Bloch, Dorete/Heide-Jørgensen, Mads
Peter/Stefansson, Eyðfinnur/Mikkelsen,
Bjarni/Ofstad, Lise Helen/Dietz, Rune/
Andersen, Liselotte Wesley: Short-term
movements of long-finned pilot whales
Globicephala melas around the Faroe
Islands
in: Wildlife Biology, vol. 9, 2003, no. 1, pp. 47-
58, 5 figures, 2 tables, references
<A study of the mobility of pilot whales around the
Faroe Islands in the summer of 2000>
081: Bloor, Philip/Reid, Jint/Webb, Andy/
Begg, Graham/Tasker, Mark: The distribu-
tion of seabirds and cetaceans between the
Shetland and Faroe Islands
Peterborough (Joint Nature Conservation
Council) 1996 (= JNCC Report; No. 226), 140
pp., figures, references
<A report presenting the seasonal distribution pat-
terns of all species of seabird and cetacean recorded
in the area between 1979 and 1996. With a descrip-
tion of the geographical and hydrographical features
of the survey area>
082: Boag, David/AIexander, Mike: The
Puffm
Lonđon (Blandford) 1986, 128 pp., illustra-
tions, references. 2nd, unaltered edition 1995
<A monograph of the natural history and distribution
of the Atlantic puffm. The puffin in the Faroes on pp.
27, 66, 1 12-114, 125>
083: Bødker, Laurids: The Nordic Riddle.
Terminology, and Bibliography
Copenhagen (Rosenkilde & Bagger) 1964,
100, [1] pp.
<With an inđex of Dutch, English, and German
terms, bibliography of riddles in general, Old Norse,
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Lapland, Norway,
Finland, and Sweden>
084: Bonnin, Jerðme/van Raaphorst, Wim/
Brummer, Geert-Jan/van Haren, Hans/
Malschaert, Hans: Intense mid-slope resus-
pension of particulate matter in the Faeroe-
Shetland Channel: short-term deployment
of near-bottom sediment traps
in: Deep-Sea Research, Pt. I, vol. 49, 2002, pp.
1485-1506, 10 figures, 2 tables, references
<”An array of four moorings was deployed on a
transect perpendicular to the south-eastern slope of
the Faeroe-Shetland Channel to measure near-bot-
tom fluxes during a 12-day period in spring 1999
[...] This study shows that near-bottom resuspension
on the slope may be intense and, although the scale
is here short-term the phenomena described might be
larger in time and space.” Quoted from abstract>
085: Book of Abstracts. International Con-
ference on Human Health Effects of Mercury
Exposure, June 22-26,1997,Tórshavn, Faroe
Islands
n.pl. [Tórshavn] [Sjúkrahúsverk Føroya,
Deildin fyri arbeiðs- og almannaheilsu] 1997,
133 pp. + list of participants (19 pp.)
<Abstracts and poster texts of 110 lectures. Contains
abstracts of 8 lectures refering to the Faroe Islands,
i.e. Weihe, P. et al.: Methylmercury exposure in
the Faroes, p. 18; Grandjean, P. et al.: Cognitive