Gásadalur is located on the edge of Mykinesfjørður, surrounded by the highest mountains on Vágar.

In 1940, during the British occupation of the Faroe Islands, a stairway was built from the beach up to the village.

In order to reach any of the other villages by land, residents had to take the strenuous route over mountains more than 400 metres high.

There are good opportunities for farming, and the same number of fields as in Bøur, but here only a few are royal estate, while most of them are freehold land.

She had eaten meat during the Lent fast, and for this unholy deed all her property was confiscated.