Aborrebjerg is a hill on the Danish island of

Møn Møn () is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg Municipality, Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langeb ...

Geography

The hill stands at and is the highest point in

island and the eighth in Denmark, very close to

Møns Klint Møns Klint is a 6 km stretch of limestone and chalk cliffs along the eastern coast of the Danish island of Møn in the Baltic Sea. Some of the cliffs fall a sheer 120 m to the sea below. The highest cliff is , which is 128 m above sea lev ...

. Aborrebjerg is mainly covered by wood and shrubs like

juniper Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Juniperus'' ( ) of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on the taxonomy, between 50 and 67 species of junipers are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere as far south ...

s; behind it some ponds are located. The summit is marked with a circular stone.

Geology

As well as the neighbouring cliffs Aborrebjerg bedrock is

chalk Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Ch ...

, which originated during the

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...

and was later lifted to its present location by

tectonic Tectonics ( via Latin ) are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time. The field of ''planetary tectonics'' extends the concept to other planets and moons. These processes ...

movements following the

ice ages An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and Gre ...

Access to the summit

The can be easily reached through a waymarked footpath. From the summit there is a good view. With good weather looking west both Farøbroerne and

Queen Alexandrine Bridge The Queen Alexandrine bridge ( Danish, ''Dronning Alexandrines Bro'') is a road arch bridge that crosses Ulv Sund between the islands of Zealand and Møn in Denmark. History The bridge is named after Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. It wa ...

can be seen, while looking north one can see up to Stevns.

References

External links

* Hiking guide: {{Møn Denmark Hills of Denmark Møn

Geography

Geology

Access to the summit

See also

References

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