Blåvands hook
Coordinates: 55 ° 33 '35 " N , 8 ° 4' 28" E
Blåvands Huk is the westernmost headland in Denmark. The place name Blåvand means “blue water”.
geology
Blåvands Huk essentially consists of a moraine ridge from the Saale cold time . This barrier is part of the Pleistocene preform of today's Danish North Sea coast. Below the cape, an extension of this subsoil extends more than 30 km into the North Sea. A channel running parallel to the coast divides this reef into the Indre Horns Rev and the Ydre Horns Rev, near the shore . On land, the moraine ridge can be seen as an embankment a little north at Grærup . From the cape to a few kilometers inland, dunes have built up on this core since the last ice age .
geography
A dune coast with a relatively low tidal range extends north of Blåvands Huk to northern Jutland , behind which a chain of dunes shield the lagoons Ringkøbing Fjord , Nissum Fjord and Nissum Bredning from the stormy North Sea. Nissum Bredning is the westernmost part of the Limfjord .
Around 16 km southeast of Blåvands Huk, the Wadden Sea begins at the southern tip of Skallingen . It has a relatively high tidal range and extends to Den Helder in North Holland.
seafaring
Blåvand lighthouse , the westernmost lighthouse of the Danish mainland, warns the sailors before the Horns Rev .
Nearby is a concrete tower that was built by the Navy as part of the Atlantic Wall during the German occupation of Denmark . During the Second World War, a radar device of the Seeriese type ( radio measuring locating device FuMO 214) was installed on it as a fire control center for the “Bamberg” position of the marine flak .
Web links
- Birger Larsen: Blåvands Huk, Horns Rev området - et nyt Skagen? in De National Geologiske Undersøgelser for Danmark og Grønland No. 4, 2003
- Dennis Anthony & Ingelise Møller The geological architecture and development of Holmsland Barrier and Ringkjøbing Fjord area, Danish North Sea Coast , in Danish Journal of Geography , 2002 (PDF)