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The epic islands going viral on TikTok that you can now reach from London

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The Faroe Islands will welcome more UK visitors than ever before this year as a new London to Vagar route opens.

The destination has seen an increase in interest thanks in part to TikTok videos celebrating its views and epic landscapes.

The self-governing nation within the Danish kingdom has a population of under 50,000 – and 70,000 sheep. Whether such an isolated archipelago of volcanic rock in the North Atlantic Ocean – centred between Scotland, Norway and Iceland, in a spot where it rains 300 days a year and is generally windy for longer – can

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