On the Faroe Islands you can see the country from fårryggen – Göteborgs-Posten

Durita Dahl Andreassen want to show off the Danish island kingdom Faroe Islands from fårryggen. Photo: EHRENBERG Communication

The Faroe Islands has nearly 50 000 inhabitants, but the island is home to over 80,000 sheep. Photo: EHRENBERG Communication

With cameras that can shoot in 360 degrees mounted to get, you can now see the Faroes from a unique perspective. Photo: EHRENBERG Communication

Duritha Dahl Andreassen love the sheep in the Faroe Islands.

In the Faroe islands there are so many sheep that it is difficult to keep them away from the island’s grassy roof.

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world Almost the entire world is mapped with Google Street View, but not one of the world’s most beautiful island states – the Faroe Islands. Therefore took färöingen Durita Dahl Andreassen matters into their own hands and created Sheep View 360th
 - I want to show the world in the best possible way in the Faroe Islands – from the back of a sheep, she says.

When each and every street corner can look forward to the Google Search Appliance Google Maps and even walk around in with Google Street View becomes remote locations more attractive to visit. In the Faroe Islands have Durita Dahl Andreassen has started a project to show how the island looks and strike a blow for the island’s major nutrition – get.
– I find it really strange that I can not show my friends in other countries, I come from. My country is beautiful, green and in a way undetected to the rest of the world – but I want to share it with the world.

user to work to identify the country from fårryggen can be followed on Twitter under the hashtag #wewantgooglestreetview.

easy choice

with a population of 80 000 sheep and almost 50,000 people were Duritha Dahl Andreas’s choice easy when she chose what she wanted to map the country and share it on the internet.
– My crazy idea is to use sheep my own fluffy cameramen. I think they will do a fantastic job and as everybody can see, they are certainly not camera shy. The only problem was to mount a camera on the back of a sheep, she writes on her blog, Sheep360.

Her plan is to upload a new movie blog once a week – or whenever she and the sheep have news to tell you about and show off. The equipment she has created, together with a local farmer and a developer specializing in animal surveillance. In a video on Youtube shows her how it was to provide a get with the camera on the back to shoot the beautiful islands.

On the interactive map you can also see which of the islands in the Faroe Islands Durita Dahl Andreassen’s get been on and filmed. The goal is to map as much as possible of the Faroe Islands from fårryggen.

Now the project has attracted the attention of the whole world. Both the British Guardian that the US CNN has noted the odd way to map the Faroe Islands. What came as a shock to the tourism industry on the small island.
– Everyone has written about it, from Australia and Brazil to Reuters and the Washington Post. Reponsen has been overwhelming and we are working around the clock to answer any media inquiries, says Guri Højgaard, CEO of Visit Faroe Islands.

She says that the Faeroe Islands had problems to profile themselves, precisely because of inadequate maps.
– Faroe Islands is a very unfamiliar place and on most maps, we are not. If we do, we are only 2-3 dots barely visible to the naked eye.

Does not the neighbors in Shetland jealous now?
– Haha, no then, they have taken it calmly. Even Norway, and for that matter Danish newspapers have written about our Sheep View and seems to like the project.