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WORKS IN ENGLISH FROM AND ABOUT THE FAROE ISLANDS
883: Wang, Zakarias: The Constitutional
Status of Greenland and Faroe
in: Føroyskt Lógar Rit/Faroese Law Review,
vol. 2, no. 3, Dezember 2002, pp. 159-190
<Translation of Wang’s article "Ríkisrættarstøða
Grønlands og Føroya” in FLR vol. 2, no. 2, Nov.
2002, pp. 101-130. A comprehensive outline of the
constitutional history and an analysis of the consti-
tutional position of the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The author concludes that the Faroe Islands have the
right to decide by themselves to become an inde-
pendent nation as they have never been a part of the
Danish realm>
884: The war dead of the British com-
monwealth and empire. The register of the
names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 war
and are buried in cemeteries in Denmark,
Iceland and the Faroe Islands
London (Commonwealth War Graves
Commission) 1955, x, 87 pp., 1 map. Amended
version published in 1982 by the Imperial War
Graves Commission
<Quoted from internet-index OCLC Site Search
WebZ>
885: Ward, David: Language cull could leave
people speechless: 90% of tongues including
Tofa and British Romani to disappear
in: The Guardian, May 25, 2002, p. 13
<Scientists of Manchester University fear that ca.
90% of the world’s languages (including Faroese
with 50,000 speakers) could have disappeared by
2050>
886: Wastegárd, Stefan/Iíjorck, Svante/
Grauert, Marianne/Hannon, Gina E.: The
Mjáuvøtn tephra and other Holocene tephra
horizons from the Faroe Islands: a link
between the Icelandic source region, the
Nordic Seas, and the European continent
in: The Holocene. Sevenoaks, vol. 11,2001, no.
1, pp. 101-109, 6 llgures, 2 tables, references
<An investigation of six different tephra horizons
found in peat and lacustrine sediments on the Faroe
Islands. Their geochemistry revealed that they were
of lcelandic origin>
887: Watling, Les/Gerken, Sarah: A new
species of leuconid (Crustacea, Cumucea),
Leucon (Crymoleucon) noerrevangi, from the
Faroe Islands
in: Sarsia, vol. 84, 1999, pp. 437-444, 6 figures,
references
<Description of a new leuconid from the BioFar
sampling programme>
888: Watson, Paul: Ocean Warrior: My
Battle to End the lllegal Slaughter on the
High Seas
Toronto (Key Porter Books) 1994, 228 pp.,
photographs. Paperback edition Toronto (Key
Porter Books) 1996, 264 pp., photographs
<The life story of -Paul Watson ... The Faroes in
chapters 9, 10, 11 >
>- Reviewed in:
Canadian Book Review Annual, 1994, p. 84
(R: Patric Colgan)
Canadian Forum, Halifax, vol. 73, January
1995, p. 43
Quill & Quire. The magazine of the Canadian
book industry. Markham City, Ontario, vol. 61,
January 1995, p. 29
889: Wawn, Andrew: The Vikings and the
Victorians: inventing the old north in nine-
teenth century Britain
Cambridge (Brewer) 2000, xiii, 434 pp., illus-
trations
<The Faroes on pp. 40, 283; Færeyinga saga on pp.
40, 84-85, 289, 362>
890: Webb, Tim: Britain’s largest private
equity group, 3i, last week bought a 15%
stake in Faroe Petroleum, a little-known
independent oil and gas conipany hoping to
strike it lucky in the North Sea
in: Sunday Business, Febr. 2, 2003
<3i is investing £ 4.5m in the company’s explora-
tion programme this year off the Faroese continental
shelf, together with UK independent oil company
Dana which is providing £ 2.5m>