Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1979, Qupperneq 95

Marine Seismic Investigation
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Fig. 1. A sketch of the survey lines mctde hy »Dana« around the Faeroe
Islands during the summer 1979. (Line 18 in the sounds Nólsoyarfjørður
and Skopunarfjørður has heen omitted for clarity).
1. mynd: Kort sum vísir siglingarleiðirnar við »Danu« á sumri 1979.
The shelf around the Faeroe Islands has been subject to
several investigations in the last few years. A detailed bathy-
metric survey has been performed inside the 200 m depth
contour (Rasmussen 1977). The shelf, including the banks to
the southwest, has been sampled by dredging (Waagstein and
Rasmussen 1975, Waagstein 1977). A magnetic and bathy-
metric survey covering the shelf including Bill Bailey Bank
and Lousy Bank (Nielsen 1977) is completed and the results
are being compiled. The survey supplements earlier studies