LÃtla DÃmun
Lítla Dímun [ lɞʏtlʌ dɞʏmʊn ] normalized [ lʊitla dʊimʊn ] (Danish Lille Dimon, German small Dimun ) is the smallest of the 18 islands in the Faroe Islands and the only one of them permanently uninhabited.
Lítla Dímun belongs historically - geographically to the neighboring island Stóra Dímun (wholesale Dimun ) and Suðuroy is upstream. Administratively, the island belongs to the municipality Hvalba on Suðuroy.
The name probably comes from the Celtic Dímun and then meant two hills in allusion to the two neighboring islands large and small Dimun Dimun.
Small Dimun was never colonized by humans. Here many puffins nest and graze 270 sheep ( as of 2004). The fact that sheep are kept here, is already mentioned in the Faroese.
1850, the island was sold for 5,000 Danish Reichstaler to interested parties from Hvalba and Sandvík. The Royal Danish monopoly trade representatives of Tvøroyri increased according to tradition, with the auction, in order to make the hitherto royal possession artificially expensive.
Vegetation
Lítla Dímun is that island with the lowest biodiversity of the Faroe Islands.
Youth project "Silent Islands " 2006
In the summer of 2006, 28 young people from Iceland (11) Norway ( 8), Greenland (3) and the Faroe Islands (6 ) under the project exposed "Silent islands " for three days on Lítla Dímun. They had no cell phone, laptop, camera, clock or watch TV. Instead, they each got a diary and a pencil in her hand. You should there all on his own to describe their impressions of how it is to live in complete isolation, silence and solitude. Following arise due a play that should be listed in Gøta.