Basendar is an ancient fishing station and a trading post just south of Stafnes.  It was one of the harbours of the Danish Trade Monopoly posts comprising Hafnir, Stafnes and Midnes.  During the night of January 9^th 1799, a catastrophic tidal flood devastated Batsendar.  It swept most of the houses away and some of the people barely escaped.  Only one old woman drowned.  This was the most devastating, tidal flood in the history of the country.