The gorge that gives Gjogv its name is a 200-metre-long fissure carved straight into the basalt cliffs, plunging from the village to the sea. A path runs down one side to a small stone landing at the bottom, where the local fishing boats used to be hauled up by a hand winch when the weather turned. It is the most natural harbour in the Faroes — narrow enough that a single big wave can fill it.
From the headland on the eastern side of the gorge you look out across open water toward Kalsoy and Kunoy. Fulmars wheel below the cliff edge, and in early summer puffins nest on the grass slopes just south of the village. Bring a windbreak: even on a calm day the air coming up the cleft is sharp.