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Why is the Faroes owned by Great Britain from the start? Is this a mistake?

It probably is. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of a British occupation before 1940, and the EU IV province history covering the start of MotE has it as part of Denmark. Denmark even sat out the Napoleonic wars until 1807. At least they kept the Danish core on the islands.