Education in the Faroe Islands bishop of Faroe Islands; later speeches of his, show that he was taught Latin, a feature revealed by his knowledge of the Decretum Gratiani. The school in Kirkjubøur continued until the Protestant Reformation. After the reformation Latin Schools were established in the Danish kingdom, extending over today's Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Skåneland and Gotland in Sweden, and Øsel (now Saaremaa) in Estonia. The Latin School in the Faroe Islands is first mentioned in 1547, in a letter to Thomas Koppen who got the Faroe Islands as a fief. In 1870 the Faroese Teachers School () was established to offer
Flora of the Faroe Islands from Tierra del Fuego to the Faroe Islands, making it the biggest "Nothofagus" population in Europe. Species from the Alaskan coastline and islands have also adapted well in the Faroe Islands, especially "Pinus contorta", "Picea sitchensis", "Salix alaxensis", "Populus trichocarpa" and "Alnus sinuata". The biggest Alaskan pine tree ("Pinus contorta") in Europe (in width, not in height), is to be found in the Selatrað plantation in the Faroe Islands. Generally, species from the oceanic climates of coastal Alaska, New Zealand, Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania are adapted to Faroe, while species from the more continental climates of Scandinavia and Europe