Natural Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are built upon layers of volcanic material and
are tilted with the eastern shores sloping to the sea and the western coasts rising up into cliffs at the seashore. Along the shore are fjords dotted with towns and villages.
The rest of the islands are deeply green with cultivated pastureland and mountains with dark stony crags of rock sticking out from them. This gives the mountains a layered look. The craggy rocks are about 60 million years old and each layer represents a past volcanic event. In between the basalt layers are bands of red tuff, which is the compressed ash spewed out by the volcanoes between eruptions.
The area is teeming with seabirds flocking to the volcanic cliffs along the sea. There are about three hundred bird species in the Faroe Islands. Visitors can see the breeding grounds of the puffins near the sea. Seals can be seen near the shoreline and the view can be spectacular.