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Russia, China and US vie for influence in the Faroe Islands Richard Orange Share Malmö | The golf ball-like structures are still visible on top of the Sornfelli mountain that looms above Torshavn, the Faroe Islands’ capital. Yet since the end of the Cold War, when the Danish unit that ran the radar was disbanded, Russian planes and submarines have been able to pass undetected through this strategic gateway to the contested Arctic Sea. Skaelingsfjall mountain and radar station on Sornfelli peak, Streymoy island, Faroe Islands. .  Alamy That is about to change. Last month Danish politicians agreed to spend £170 million ($223 million) re-establishing the radar station, whose buildings are being used as a prison, and buying drones to survey Greenland. That is partly why Jenis av Rana, the Faroese Foreign Minister, expects this week to meet Antony Blinken, his second meeting with a US secretary of state in less than a year.

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