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WORKS IN ENGLISH FROM AND ABOUT THE FAROEISLANDS
523: Larsen, Rikke Berg/Dam, Maria:
AMAP phase I the Faroe Islands
n.p. [Tórshavn] (Food and Environmental
Agency) 1999, 41, 28 pp., fígures, tables, 1
map, references
<AMAP = Arctic Monitoring and Assessment
Programme. A report presenting the levels of
contaminants found in different species from the
marine, terrestrial and freshwater environments in
the Faroes>
524: Laurance, Jeremy: Multiple sclerosis
‘might be caught by sexual contact’
in: The Independent, Sept. 19, 2002, p. 7
<On a new theory announced by Christopher Hawkes
in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and
Psychiatry (which was, however, never published).
Hawkes claims that MS could be a sexually transmit-
ted disease, a concept based on results from Orkney,
Shetland and the Faroe Islands. Hawkes’s theory
was immediately challenged by the majority of MS
researchers as unreliable. Cf. also Nigel Hawkes:
"Neurologist links MS to sexual transmission” in:
The Times, London, Sept. 19, 2002, p. 1; Nigel
Hawkes: "Upsetting theory of MS sex link is dis-
missed” in: The Times, Sept. 19, 2002, p. 2; >
525: Lauridsen, Torben L./Hansson, Lars-
Anders: The zooplankton community of five
Faroese lakes
in: Christoffersen et al. (eds): Five Faroese
Lakes, Tórshavn 2003, pp. 70-78, 3 ftgures, 3
tables, references
<Results of a study of the zooplankton community
in Sørvágsvatn, Leynavatn, Mjáavatn, Saksunarvatn
and Toftavatn in early August 2000. Only six
cladocerans, three copepods and eight rotifera spe-
cies/genera were observed>
526: Lean, Geoffrey: This scepter’d isle...
this precious stone set in the, er, Malin Sea
in: The Independent on Sunday, June 14, 1998,
p. 1
<Area of sea between Northern Ireland and Faeroes
now to be known internationally as Malin Sea.
Quoted from British Newspaper Index>
527: Leather boat arrives in Faroes
in: The Times, June 28, 1976, p. 5
<On the ”Brendan Voyage”, cf. bibliography nos.
2023-25>
528: Lein, Tor Eiliv/Stige, Leif Christian/
Bruntse, Grethe: Dominant Species Abun-
dance Related to Environmental Factors on
Rocky Shores in the Faroe Isiands
in: Fróðskaparrit, vol. 48, 2001, pp. 105-124, 6
figures, 6 tables, references
<”Abundance data of 22 species at 168 intertidal
sites with hard substrate in the Faroe Islands were
analysed using Canonical Correspondence Analysis
and related ordination techniques... The present
analyses supported the interpretation that the bio-
logical scale mainly reflects wave exposure.” Quoted
from abstract to above paper>
529: Leithauser, Brad: The Friends of
Freeland
New York (Knopf) 1997, xii, 508 pp.
<A novel set in a ficticious island that was part-
ly inspired by Leithausers travels in the Faroe
Islands>
>- Reviewed in:
Wall Street Journal, New York, Jan. 29, 1997,
pg. A.9 (Brooke Allen, under the title ”Comic
commotion in a cold climate”)
530: Lind, L.J./Payne, M.A.: ”N”Class -
The Story of HMAS Napier, Nizan, Nestor,
Norman an Nepal
Sydney (Naval Historical Society of Australia)
1993, 157, 10 pp., 21 b/w photographs, 1 map,
1 line drawing of ”N” class destroyer. Facsimile
edition of 1972 first edition
<Describes the WWII services of the Royal
Australian Navy destroyers of the ”N”Class on all
the main theatres and the remote areas: Madagascar,
Arckangelsk, Iceland, Faroes etc.>