The Nome nugget., 1938-06-22

Prepared by the National Geographic Society Washington. D. C.-WNU Service T>IlE Royal Dutch Airline is studying proposed routes which will link the Netherlands with the FaerOe islands and Iceland 'ia Great Britain. According to re ports from The Hague. the proposed roule is intended to be link in the .hain winch. not many years hence. Niil be extended westward to the 1 United States along the northern route investigated by Colonel Lindbergh The Faeroes are Il group of 21 small islands, sprinkled over small area lbout 2JO miles of the northern tip 1 )f scotland. When the islands were first settled has caused a guessing contest, among historians. At Thors- | havn the capital d city of abOu; 2,ooO inhabitants, the wooden build .ngs on strong stone foundations. topped by turf roots. take the traveller back a thousand years ago when | Norsemen settled there.
 
 shore of the island and up the hill sides beyond, is busy port. There Ire a few narrow streets winding be. tween houses. but off these are mere paths leading to the suburbs" Ponies | have not been displaced by automo, -biles, or even by wagons and carts so that there is no demand for good roads on the islands. and there are none
 However. the FaeroeS, although of the popular tourists routes, do not en | tirely live in ages past. In some of the villages electric light bulbs throw their bright rays on paths that Viking 1 feet once trod; telegraph wires are strung above ancient chimneys: radio towers throw their shadows upon turf covered birch bark roofs; phonographs play for the entertainment of qnaintly i coStumed men and women who sit on furniture that was built by the own, ers ancestors before Columbus sailed west and the staccato put put of mod arn motors emanateS from fishing craft i that are patterned after those of Nik ing forefathers.
 Travellers are amazed at the lofty l homes of many Ot the islanders par ticularly on those islands which are rimmed by sheer cliffs. rising more than GOO feet from the sea. Some islands have home made elevators. bu1 many islanders scale the rocks as a human fly" scales q modern building.
 The cliffs appear inslIrmountable but 1 they are sources of life to the Faero" inhabitants The ledges. from sea to summit are the nesting places of myriad birds which forms an i'm portant part of the Faeroe diet Ma. l tive hunters. with ropes tied securely about their waists and long handled nets in hand. descend the cliffs and return with several days supply Of food
 Iceland Not Frigd Land
 lceland's name naturally suggests 10 the prospective visitor that he will find frozen waste. And when his map shows this island To lie across the very threshold of the Arctic ocean hard by the glacial coast of Green land. and 200 miles fart her north than bleak Labrador he IS almost prepared to come upon land of polar bears and of fur clad folk living in snow 1 igloos.
 Iceland is lbeled both by nomen clature and maps. On many charts the most important physical fact 1T it's life does not appear. Up from the south flows the warm Gulf stream {, enfold the island and work the magic of whiskine 1t. in effect. nearly 6 thousand miles toward the Equator so that it's climate is not that of tho polar region. but of southern canada ar northern United States
 On Iceland's coasts are thrivin! towns with buildings of stone. gable' roofs and church steep'es bns! streets and electric tights. ii th' | streets are men and women garhet much as are the inhabitants of C"peh hagen and Glasgow. Ottawa an' l Minneapolis Ones eyes tell him tha