Hestur , also named Hestoy (literally: the island Horse ), is located in the archipelago of the Faroe Islands.
Nombe of tops: 3
The climate on the Hælur is favorable to the culture of cereals but not to the fishing, with the result that the islanders moved west of the island until the place where the current village is.
There are four tops : Nakkur (296 m), Múlin (421 m), Eggjarrók (421 m) and Álvastakkur (125 m).
In the north of the island decorated marshy grounds of four small lakes are, whose Fagradalsvatn is widest.
In spite of the low number of its inhabitants, and precisely with an aim of avoiding an inescapable depopulation, the island obtained its own public swimming pool in 1974.
The church of the village was built in 1910. The bell-tower, rare thing, have a roof of hexagonal form.
In 1919, the terrible accident of a small fishing boat reduced the male population of the island of a third.
List of the islands of the Faroe Islands
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