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LE NORD
in his famous book Færoæ et Færoa
reserata, Copenhagen 1673, offered
an important description of the is-
lands and their inhabitants. The
book is provided with a map, which
supplied new material, particularly
some new names.
During the years 1709—10 Com-
mander Rasmus Juel took a survey
of the Faeroes, in many ways an im-
provement on the earlier maps, but
the results was not published, and
has only been printed now. About
1780 two Faeroese naturalists and
linguists, Nicolai Mohr and Jens
Christian Svabo, tried to improve
on Rasmus Juel’s maps, but they
could not master the technical part
of the survey, and their work in a
cartographical respect therefore was
not very great, whereas in other
spheres, within natural history and
language, they made important con-
tributions. In the meantime new
determinations of place had ap-
peared, made by French and Danish
scientists, but still the material was
insufficient, and so the comman-
dant in the Faeroes, L. N. Born,
was approached, who in the years
1791—95 on the basis of a triangu-
lation and a measuring of details
had a map of the Faeroes made
on a scale 1/60,000. In 1800 Bom’s
map was published by the Chart
Archives, and for a whole century
this map was the model of all carto-
graphical representations of the is-
lands.
A modern topographical survey
was not started until the end of
the 19th century. The survey pro-
per was begun in 1895 under the
leadership of the then First Lieute-
nant M. J. Sand. Determinations
of position, measurements of base,
and triangulation were carried
through, and on this basis the very
comprehensive measurement of de-
tail was made, which was concluded
in 1899. As early as 1901 a com-
plete map of the islands on the scale
1/20,000 was available, executed in
a similar-angled, conic projection
with a contact-circle along the 62th
parallel. At about the same time a
surveying of the sea was made,
which resulted in the publication
of charts of the Faeroes and sur-
rounding waters in 1900.
A number of other surveys have
been made later in the Faeroes,
chiefly for the land register. In 1938
the Geodetic Institute made a
thorough revision in the field of
the topographical maps of 1895—
99, as also a revision of the name-
material has been undertaken, and
on this basis the Institute in 1941
published revised maps.
The maps in Fœroernes Kortlæg-
ning consist of 23 plates with early
maps, starting with the Hereford
map from about 1280 and ending
with Born’s map of 1800. Next fol-
lows all the new topographical maps
to a scale of 1/20,000, in all 53
plates, and maps to scales of
1/100,000, 1/200,000, 1/300,000,
and 1/500,000.