Summer poetry on the endless Danish coast by Silva Wischeropp

About "Summer poetry on the endless Danish coast"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

Fantastic evening light over the sea in Jutland, Denmark. This photographic landscape shot was taken in the early evening hours of 27 August 2016 with the NIKON D90 during my summer holiday in Denmark.

Rømø, German Röm [ˈrœm] and North Frisian Rem [ˈɾɛm], is the southernmost Danish Wadden Sea island. It is located around six kilometres south of the island of Mandø and three kilometres north of Sylt. Rømø is a popular holiday destination with its kilometre-wide, navigable sandy beach.
The 128.86 square kilometre island has 562 inhabitants and is connected to the mainland via the Rømødæmningen (Roman causeway).
However, the area of the island cannot be precisely determined as the boundary between sea and land is blurred. It is somewhere between 120 and 140 square kilometres. Around 60 per cent of the island is covered with plants, 40 per cent is sandy.

In the north, the length of the island is limited by the Juvredyb Juvre Deep, in the south by the 2.5 km wide and up to 40 metre deep Lister Deep. The centre of the island consists of a crescent-shaped belt of dunes measuring around 25 km². Towards the open sea, there are 25 km² of beach meadows in front of the dunes. Large sand deposits (Juvre Sand in the north-west, Havsand or Haffsand in the south-west) covering an area of over 40 km² have formed on the lows as a result of the tidal current. Until around 1850, Havsand was a separate sand island, mostly dry even at high tide, which was separated from Rømø by a tidal inlet, but has since merged completely with the main island. Over the last 200 years, the sandbanks have partly formed new marshland covering an area of around 10 square kilometres, of which over 600 hectares were diked in 1867 and 1926/28.