Missing Google Street View, Faroe Islands Instead Get 'Sheep View'

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– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry  

If you were to take a tour of Europe’s tiny, rocky Faroe Islands, you would surely see a lot of sheep – lots and lots and lots of them.

But you can’t take a tour of the Faroe Islands in Google Street View as – unlike much of the rest of Europe – the islands do not have a lot of streets. 

As such, a resident of these North Atlantic islands has turned to her sheep for help.

Durita Dahl Andreassen, of the tourist organization Visit Faroe Islands, has fastened a 360-degree camera, powered by a solar panel, to the back of her sheep.  The camera takes photographs as the animal grazes along the hillsides and which she then uploads onto “SheepView360.”

In addition to enouraging tourists to come to the Faroes, Andreassen is also using SheepView360 so as to peak Google’s attention.  Further, she has initiated a petition so as to entice the Internet giant to turn its eye to the Faroe archipelago and which is located roughly midway between Scotland, Iceland and Norway.

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