Road Tunnels in Faroe Islands — Complete List by Length

• 21entries listed
• 12 kmlongest bore
• 1963–2018openings span
• 55.69 kmtotal length

The record table

How this archive measures: lengths, bores, dates and ordering

How this table is compiled

The middle half of the table runs from 1.32 km to 2.92 km, and that band is where most of the engineering on this page actually sits. Between the longest and the tenth-longest the drop is 9.76 km, which is the part of the table that changes when a single scheme opens.

The three longest entries alone account for 23.13 km of the 55.69 km on this page, which is 42 per cent of the total from 3 of 21 rows. After the 1980s the next busiest decade here is the 1960s with 4 openings, so the building effort came in more than one wave.

A new scheme in Faroe Islands would have to beat 12 km to change the head of this table, and that is the figure worth rechecking when one opens. The longest entry is 54.5 times the shortest and 5.7 times the median, which is the quickest measure of how uneven the table is.

This page records the road tunnels catalogued for Faroe Islands in a tunnel almanac maintained at this address since the late 1990s. Laid end to end the entries on this page would run 55.69 km, which is a number with no engineering meaning but a useful sense of the scale of what is catalogued.

Dated entries run from 1963 to 2018, and the busiest decade is the 1980s with 6 recorded openings. The table on this page runs to 21 rows and records Tunnel, Length (m), Date of opening, Notes and Road for each of them, which is the shape the original compiler chose rather than one imposed here.

Reading the figures

Second and third place go to Norðöyar at 6.19 km and Vága at 4.94 km. Read down the length (m) column, the 20 values run from 220 m to 6 186 m with a midpoint at 2 010 m; the spread rather than the maximum is what says how uneven this set is.

3 entries fall below a kilometre, short enough that portals and approaches usually decided their cost more than the bore itself. The date of opening column runs from 1963 to 2018 across 17 dated rows, and the 1980s alone account for 6 of them, so the building effort here came in waves rather than evenly.

Roughly 5 of the dated entries opened in this century, which is a rough measure of how much of the network is recent. The captions name 5 distinct places and structures — Streymöy, Sanðöy and Eysturöy among them — and those names are the index into the length tables where each is recorded with its own figure.

The 21 rows for Faroe Islands are ordered by length, not by date, so the 2018 opening sits well down the table without being any less current. The ten longest average 4.17 km against 1.28 km for everything below them, and that ratio is the clearest thing this table says about the distribution.

The dated entries carry 16 distinct opening years across 55 years, and the median opening year is 1985. The material on this page is held in 3 captions rather than in running text, 19 words of it, each written against the image or row it belongs to by the compiler who put the page together.