Drangarnir is a pair of basalt sea stacks in open Atlantic water, two dark columns roughly 70 metres high. The larger of them, Stóri Drangur, carries an arch worn clean through its foot. From one narrow angle on the cliffs of Vágar, the five-peaked island of Tindhólmur sits framed inside that opening, and that alignment is why people walk out here at all. The name is plain Faroese for the sea stacks, and the bluntness suits them. Tindhólmur beyond rises to 262 metres, and each of its five summits is named: Ytsti, Arni, Lítli, Breiði and Bogni — Farthest, Eagle, Small, Broad and Bent.
The towers were once part of the island's cliff line. After the last ice age the swell went to work on the joints in the basalt, hollowing a cave into the base of Stóri Drangur and finally punching straight through it. The sea cut both stacks free of the land behind them. Getting to the viewpoint is not casual. The stacks look out over private outfield, and Faroese law requires the landowner's permission to cross it, so the walk runs only as a guided, ticketed tour on set days between April and September. Going in alone risks a fine, and drones are banned outright. Most trips leave from Sørvágur harbour by boat, which drops you along the coast before a guide leads the last stretch over wet, tussocky ground. Other boats skip the walk and sail in beneath the towers instead, close enough to hear the swell boom against the foot of Stóri Drangur. From May to August the ledges are loud with puffins, guillemots and fulmars.