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LONDON, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Have you heard of the Faroe Islands? If not, don't worry. Now you can have a look at the hidden Nordic archipelago just north of Scotland with a sheep's eye view!
Unlike almost all parts of Europe, the Faroe Islands, an autonomous country within Denmark, don't have their own street views on Google Maps.
Durita Dahl Andreassen, who works for the local tourism bureau, got tired of waiting for Google to come to complete the mapping project, and instead established her own project called Sheep View 360.
She placed a 360-degree camera powered by a solar panel on the back of a sheep that would take photographs as the animal freely grazed the open hillsides of the Faroe Islands.
The pictures were sent back to Andreassen with GPS co-ordinates, which she then uploads to Google Street View and her own website.
Andreassen and her team also made a number of panoramic videos showing the beautiful landscapes of the islands, so that visitors can explore the islands as if they are, quite literally, a sheep.
But why sheep?
Faroe Islands, a collection of 18 islands in the North Atlantic, originally means the Islands of Sheep, and currently have a population of about 80,000 sheep but only about 50,000 humans.
Thus, the archipelago is counting on the sheep, the most plentiful and best-known mammal on the islands, to help spark international attention with those panoramic photographs.
It's not the first time to use an animal to help with mapping missions. In 2014, Google Maps used camel to capture the landscapes of the Liwa Desert in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.
