Young Girl Finds Boat in Faroe Islands

On May 16, 2025 five families from the village of Hvannasund went on a boat trip to Viðvík beach. They spent all day at the beach, playing in the sand, the river and in the sea and had a great time. 8 year old Arnfríða found boat #5444 as she was playing on the large rocks at the bottom of the beach.

This was the 22nd boat of the 500 that were sent to the North Pole from VilVite, Bergen Science Centre. During 2022 Float Your Boat collaborated with VilVite, a science museum in Bergen, Norway. VilVite cut and branded hundreds of wooden boats and had them decorated in various learning programs. This boat was deployed alongside its parent Arctic buoy by Le Commandant Charcot at the North Pole in summer 2022. Since May of 2023, there have now been 22 boats found from that deployment.

Boat Number	5444
Date Found	May 17, 2025
Place Found	on the beach in Viðvík, Viðoy, Faroe Islands. Viðvík is a remote beach that can only be accessed by boat or foot 62.300534,-6.469858
Found By	Arnfríða
Date Deployed	July/August 2022
Who Deployed	Le Commandant Charcot
Deployment Location	North Pole
Track Taken	North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre through Fram Strait
Decorated by	VilVite Science Center student