Wonderful sand dune at Henne Strand in Jutland

by Silva Wischeropp

This maritime landscape photograph was taken on 23 August 2016 in the early summer evening hours at Henne Strand on the Danish North Sea coast in Jutland.
Jutland (Danish Jylland, adjective: "Jutisch" or "Jutlandic", Danish jysk) is, according to common reading, the western part of Denmark, located on the Kimbrian Peninsula and stretching from the German-Danish border to the Grenen headland north of Skagen. Thus, the entire Danish mainland is formed by Jutland, while the other parts of Denmark are spread over 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 middle and clayey hill country consisting of the ground moraines of the Ice Age in the east. The coastal strips of the north-eastern half are comparatively young, as Jutland still rises 10 mm a year due to post-glacial land uplift along a diagonal and sinks in the south-west.
North of Esbjerg, there is a compensatory 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 north-south through the middle of Jutland, beginning at Dollerup and continuing over the Hüttener Mountains to Holstein. The main north-south traffic route, the Hærvejen (Ox Road), was probably formed along this ridge as early as the Stone Age.
The highest elevation in Jutland (and, at 170.86 m 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 lie 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 km.