Langasandur (Danish: Langesand) is a village located on the Faroese island of Streymoy in the municipality of Sunda.
The village was settled in 1938, the name Langasandur means Longbeach.
In 1894, the first whaling station in the Faroe Islands, was built at Gjánoyri, about 1 km south of the village.
It was constructed by the Norwegian Hans Albert Grøn from Sandefjord, he sailed one of his decommissioned whaling stations from Finnmarken, and set it up in Gjánoyri, and started whaling with his boat Urd.
[3] The boats connected to the station were: Urd (1894-1911), Skuld (1897-1911), Funding (1914), Leif (1914), Dominion I (1920) and Norman I (1920)[4] This Faroe Islands location article is a stub.