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The Grind: Whaling in the Faroe Islands

There’s not much agriculture in the Faroe Islands, an archipelago in the North Atlantic, roughly equidistant from Norway, Iceland, and Scotland. Aside from the sheep that freely roam the fjords and a few root vegetables, the Faroese have always relied on the surrounding sea as a source of fish, seabirds, and the pilot whales they slaughter in a hunt known as the grindadráp, or grind.

English
  • Originally Aired March 31, 2015
  • Runtime 29 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created September 5, 2025 by
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