Summer dune on the Danish coast in Jutland by Silva Wischeropp

About "Summer dune on the Danish coast in Jutland"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

This maritime, sunny landscape shot was taken on 21 August 2016 in the late afternoon hours with the Nikon D90 camera (lens: SIGMA 18.0-50.0 mm f/2.8) on the beach in Henne on Jutland.

Jutland (Danish Jylland, adjective: "jütisch" or "jütländisch", Danish jysk) is commonly understood to be the western part of Denmark, which is located on the Kimbrian Peninsula and stretches from the German-Danish border to the Grenen headland north of Skagen. This means that the entire Danish mainland is made up of Jutland, while the other parts of Denmark are made up of islands.
In Danish Jutland, the Schleswig-Holstein landscape continues northwards, with marshes on the North Sea coast in the west, a terminal moraine ridge (Geest) in the centre and loamy hill country consisting of glacial moraines in the east. The coastal strips in the north-eastern half are comparatively young, as Jutland still rises 10 mm per year due to the post-glacial land uplift along a diagonal and sinks in the south-west.
To the north of Esbjerg, there is a levelling coast with high sand dunes in the west. The Limfjord cuts through Jutland in an east-westerly direction. The watershed of the Jutland Ridge runs through the centre of Jutland in a north-south direction, starting at Dollerup and continuing over the Hütten Hills to Holstein. The main north-south traffic artery, the Ox Road (Danish: Hærvejen), was probably already formed on this ridge in the Stone Age.
The highest elevation in Jutland (and at 170.86 metres above sea level also the highest elevation in Denmark) is Møllehøj in the immediate vicinity of Ejer Bavnehøj and not far from Yding Skovhøj, all of which are located in the Ejer Bjerge mountain range between Skanderborg and Horsens.
The longest river and also the longest river in Denmark is the Gudenå with a length of 173 kilometres.