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Improving Mindat.orgFaroe Islands

7th Nov 2006 03:45 UTCKarl Volkman Expert

I spent the day (hopefully) cleaning up organizing and fleshing out he Faro Islands. There are still several locations that don't have a specific island that they are attributed to and the entries are old enough that they do not have any changes history preserved. If someone with more specific knowledge could look over the Faroes and make additional corrections and updates that would be great

Thanks

Karl

7th Nov 2006 13:08 UTCPeter Andresen Expert

Should we have FÃ¦rÃ¸ene in the locality strings as well, the original name of the islands... (just having an other discussion in this forum in mind: http://www.mindat.org/mesg-7-49281.html )

An other funny thing about language... Almost all the islands have the nordic word for island in their name (Ã¸y = island), f.ex. StreymÃ¸y island then would be "translated" to Streym island island as it's listed in Mindat... I just can't help smiling each time I see it ;)

Cheers

Peter

PS: great job Karl! I have unfortunatly not so much to add, as my knowledge about collecting on FÃ¦rÃ¸ene is limited.

7th Nov 2006 19:36 UTCKarl Volkman Expert

I was wondering about that a little as I was working through then with Wikipedia. My initial thoughts on that would be to have the English "Translation" of the names in the primary locality string and have either the Danish or Norse names in the original language string. This would catch most of the searches and the more common synonyms could be added as alternates into one or the other of the strings.

Regards

Karl

P.S. Thanks, i got a Chabazite/heulandite over the weekend from Malinsfjall and things went from there. :)

9th Nov 2006 17:33 UTCVolker Betz 🌟 Expert

Hello Karl,

thank you for the work with Faroe locations. I have spent may weeks on Faroes for colleting, mostly in the 1974 to 1983 time frame. Also a little recently 2002 and 2003.

I will update the loaction information in some time with picture postings and use the actual writing from the maps.

Greetings

Volker

10th Nov 2006 08:39 UTCHans Kloster

Thanks to Volker Betz for:

Famous mineral localities: zeolites from Iceland and the Faeroes. The Mineralogical Record. January-February 1981.

And good books:

Kristjan Sæmundsson and Einar Gunnlaugssson: Islenska steinabokin. Reykjavik 1999.

Fritz Schalkhausse: Fundstellen von Mineralien und Fossilien in Island. 2.Auflage. München 1984.

14th Nov 2006 16:32 UTCVolker Betz 🌟 Expert

Hello,

I started to add location names to the faroes locations. And I saw Peter Andresen also did (thank you !)

We should discuss which kind of names will be used: the Faroes or Danish ones. Maps over the last decades are different:

Older maps show e.g. KollafjÃ¶rÃ°ur the newer (with faroes names) KollafjÃ¸rÃ°ur.

Also the addition of Danmark after FÃ¸royer is not typical for for the faroes writing. Like Scotland they claim to be a own Nation (and have own (inter-)national soccer team, like Scotland) and in fact

the 1:200000 scale map from 1971 is named: Kort af Danmark with subtitle FÃ¸royer

and the 1978 issue is named: FÃ¸royakort, Danmark is not anymore mentioned.

So my recommendation woud be:

In the english writing (and dansk) the addition Danmark is ok, because we look from outside. If the faroes witing is used then not, because they feel different.

Also to my opinion in earth sciences we should use more geographic units and less political. FÃ˜ROYER is a very clear geographical unit (of Europe).

Greetings from Europe

Volker

14th Nov 2006 23:23 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager

I agree with Volker. We already use Greenland without adding Denmark, so we may as well do the same with the Faroes. Let the dismemberment of the danish empire begin! (Nothing against the Danes, whom I greatly admire - I'd do the same with lots of countries.)

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