Sheep mounted with cameras are mapping the Faroe Islands, because Google hasn't

Faroe Island residents have fitted local sheep with cameras to take 360 footage of the islands.

(Image credit: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

published 12 July 2016

When you live on a tiny 18-island archipelago in the north Atlantic, you can fall by the wayside of giant corporations like Google. But luckily for Faroe islanders who are without Google Street View, they have sheep. A lot of sheep.

While 360-degree cameras on Google cars have mapped vast swaths of the world, some Faroe islanders were frustrated that they couldn't share their chilly, majestic landscape with friends abroad. That's when Durita Dahl Andreassen fitted five of the island's 80,000 sheep with 360-degree cameras and set them loose to map.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.

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