Hjortø
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| Waters | Baltic Sea | |
| Archipelago | Danish South Seas | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 57 '54 " N , 10 ° 29' 4" E | |
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| surface | 90 ha | |
| Residents | 7th (January 1, 2020) 7.8 inhabitants / km² |
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Hjortø ( German also Hjortö ) is a Danish island in the " Danish South Seas " south of Fyn ( German Fyn ).
history
The island belongs to the parish community ( Danish : Sogn ) ( Drejø Sogn , which belonged to Harde Sunds Herred in Svendborg Amt until 1970 ), then to the "old" Svendborg Kommune in Fyns Amt , and since the municipal reform on January 1, 2007 it belongs to the "new" Svendborg municipality in the region of Syddanmark . There are 7 residents (January 1st, 2020) on the island, which also has a small marina. With this, Hjortø, which is also part of the Association of Danish Small Islands, replaced Birkholm as the smallest inhabited island in Denmark with a size of 90 hectares in 2010 .
traffic
There is a ferry connection to Svendborg on Fyn. The ferry runs twice a day except on Saturdays, and three trips are made in the summer season. It transports up to twelve people and one car. The crossing takes an hour.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BEF4: Folketal pr. January 1st demands på øer (Danish)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistics : Statistical Yearbook 2009 - Geography and climate, Table 3 Area and population. Regions and inhabited islands (English; PDF; 39 kB)
- ^ Oplev Hjortø. havn.svendborg.dk, 2017, accessed November 16, 2017 (Danish).
