A message in a bottle launched into the sea by a Eoligarry Primary School pupil has washed ashore in the Faroe Islands.

Primary 2 pupil Nicole Wallace set her bottle off to sea in Barra, and it has now travelled 344 miles across the North Atlantic in 45 days. It was found last month during a Faroese Environment Agency beach clean at the village of Kirkjubøur.

The beach clean team have now been in touch with Eoligarry Primary to report their find.

The school is now using the ‘message in a bottle’ adventure as part of their learning about the sea and the environment.

Kirkjubøur is among the oldest villages in the Faroe Islands and was historically the centre of religious and cultural activity in the country. 

According to visittorshavn.fo: “The village’s location was ideal for settlement, situated where significant flotsam drifted ashore and in an area with extensive sunlight, making the land fertile. While the village was once larger than it is today, its central location has made it one of the country’s most valuable villages.”

The village is historically home to the royal farm, the largest in the Faroe Islands, which has remained in the same family since the mid-16th century.

Kirkjubøur also boasts the most famous Faroese monument, the old St. Magnus Cathedral walls, and the current parish church, which is the oldest church in the Faroe Islands.