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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lying E. of it and comprisingthe islands of Seeland (or Sjalland),Funen (or Fyen), Laaland (orLolland),Falster, Langeland, Moen, Samso, Laso,Arro, Bornholm, and many smaller ones.Besides these there are the outlying pos-sessions of Iceland, Greenland, and theFaroe islands in the Atlantic Ocean.Denmark is bounded on the S. by Ger-many and the Baltic; on the W. by theNorth Sea; on the N. it is separatedfrom Norway by the Skagerrack; and onthe E. it is separated from Sweden bythe Kattegat and the Sound. Area,15,289 square miles; pop. (1901) 2,464,-770; capital, Copenhagen. Topography.—The surface of Den-mark is very much alike in every part ofthe kingdom, uniformly low, reaching itshighest point in Eirs-Bavnehoj, in S. E.Jutland, which is only 564 feet abovesea-level. The country presents littlevariety, except in its low isolated hills,but does not leave an impression ofmonotony; in the islands and in the S.E. of Jutland the landscape is broken byforests, meadows, and fields; and even
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DENMARK 321 DENMARK in the W. and N. of the mainland thestretches of moorland are clothed withheather, and have a solemn beauty. Thecoast seldom rises even to low cliffs;generally it is flat, skirted by sand-ridges and shallow lagoons, especiallyalong the W. side, where the dunescover an area of nearly 225 squaremiles. The E. coast is much indentedby bays, useful for navigation and valu-able for their fisheries: here and in theislands are many good harbors. Boththe continental portion and the islandsare penetrated deeply by numerousfjords, the largest being Limfjord, whichintersects Jutland and has insulated theN. extremity of the peninsula since 1825,when it broke through the narrow isth-mus which had separated it from theNorth Sea. From its formation, thekingdom can have no rivers, properly socalled; its streams, called Aa, are mostlylarge brooks. There are several impor-tant canals, however, including in Jut-land works for the canalization of theGuden-Aa, its largest stream, and of

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