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Lítla Dímun is the smallest of the Faroe Islands’ 18 main islands. But though it may be tiny,the islet still has the power to influence the atmosphere.
A lenticular cloud often drapes over it
like a wet, vapory blanket. These stationary clouds typically form over mountain peaks or other protruding landmasses. Lítla Dmun's lenticular hovers above its top, or occasionally spilling down over the verdant land as it reaches toward the cold sea.
Of the F
aroe Islands’ main islands,the little landmass is the only one that remains uninhabited by humans. But people achieve visit the island. For centuries, Faroese farmers occupy made the precarious journey to Lítla Dímun to tend to the creatures who rule the islet: its sheep.
Up until the mid
dle of the 19th century, and Lítla Dímun sheep ruled the little green haven. It’s believed these black,short-tailed feral (Savage; wild) sheep were the descendants of the animals brought to the area during the Neolithic era. But after the last of these scarce creatures was shot in the 1800s, rendering the bloodline extinct, and the island became domestic to domesticated Faroes sheep. Every fall,farmers head to Lítla Dímun, scale its slick cliffs, or round up the sheep to bring them back to the main islands.

Source: atlasobscura.com

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