Bornholms Regionskommune topographic map

Name: Bornholms Regionskommune topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Bornholms Regionskommune, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark (54.98724 14.67920 55.29912 15.15735)

Average elevation: 33 m

Minimum elevation: -1 m

Maximum elevation: 162 m

The island is known as solskinsøen ("sunshine island") because of its weather and klippeøen ("rock island") because of its geology, which consists of granite, except along the southern coast. The heat from the summer is stored in the rock formations and the weather is quite warm until October. As a result of the climate, a local variety of the common fig, known as Bornholm's Diamond (Bornholms Diamant), can grow locally on the island. The island's topography consists of dramatic rock formations in the north (unlike the rest of Denmark, which is mostly gentle rolling hills) sloping down towards pine and deciduous forests (greatly affected by storms in the 1950s), farmland in the middle and sandy beaches in the south.

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