Anholt
Anholt is located in the middle of the Kattegat. The island has approximately 120 permanent residents and is populated by significantly more in the summer. The surrounding coastline is 24 km long. The photo was taken from a small plane.
IN THE MIDDLE OF KATTEGAT
An island with a “desert”
Anholt is a Danish island in the Kattegat, halfway between Jutland and Sweden. the island is 11 km long and 6 km wide and there is approx. 24 km of coast around the island.
To the west (closest to the picture) the island is hilly, while the eastern part, called the “Desert”, is treeless. It is not a real desert, as it rains too much, and this despite the fact that Anholdt is one of the driest places in Denmark. The desert is quite special for Denmark as it has never been ploughed. For this reason, the original Stone Age topography from when glaciation ceased, at the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago, is still visible in many places.