"1. MØNS KLINT
Møns Klint is in every respect the greatest sight of Møn. A destination of international class. Gigantic. Majestic. A 6-kilometre-long chalk cliff at the east coast of Møn. The creation of Møns Klint can be described in 3 chapters:
Chapter I: The Cretaceous Period
Approx. 70 million years ago Denmark – along with large parts of Europe – was covered by an enormous sea – the Cretaceous Sea. A lot of different organisms lived in this sea, e.g. fish, squids, mussels, snails, sea urchins, fungi – the organisms we today find as fossils.
Billions of micro organisms with calcareous shells lived in the upper strata. These calcareous shells from dead animals and plants form the chalk of Møns Klint. The black flint strata of the chalk have been created by skeletons from fungi – some primitive animals. The chalk of Møns Klint is called white chalk because it is particularly fine.
Chapter II: The Glacial Age
During the Glacial Age the chalk was pressed up from the ground by enormous glaciers, that went like planes across the seabed. Møns Klint consists of such 100-metre-thick pressed-up chalk flakes. Høje Møn consists of 20-30 such chalk flakes.
Chapter III: The Modern Age
From the beach you can study the construction of the cliff. There is a characteristic alternation of protruding chalk flakes – noses – and flatter parts – falls – consisting of clay and sand. In the chalk flint stone is found in thin layers. They are seen as dark lines and show how the ice has pressed and folded the strata of white chalk together in many ways. The cliff is gradually and slowly – erosion.
MØN AS A LANDSCAPE
If we peel off the upper layers of culture in our minds: roads, houses, trees, crops and soil, we get an idea of what Møn looked like when the glaciers of the Glacial Age melted about 13 000 years ago.
2. At west Møn, Bogø and in the Klinteskoven several examples of hilly dead ice landscapes with many hollows - kettle holes – often with small lakes or bogs, are found. Kettle holes arise when a piece of ice, which is not part of a glacier – a dead ice lump – slowly melts away.
3. At several places in and outside the Klinteskoven you can see some large kettle-formed hollows containing water. Among these are Store Geddesø and Aborresø (two lakes). Some of these hollows are sink holes, which arose by the ceiling of a subterranean cave collapsing. The cave arose because percolating water has dissolved the white chalk over thousands of years.
4. The major part of the Møn landscape is a moraine sheet. This means that the soil consists of material left when the ice melted away about 13 000 years ago.
When ice melts it leaves a mess of stone, gravel, sand and clay. This deposit is called moraine clay. You meet that everywhere on Møn. The larger part of Møn consists of ordinary, undulating ground moraine. The hills along the south and north coasts of Møn are lateral moraines, formed in front of two large glaciers, which created Fakse Bugt and Hjelm Bugt (two bays). Just after the glacial Age the hills were higher, but gradually they have somewhat collapsed. Many of the lengthy hills, stretching northwest from Madses Klint and Hvide Klint are lateral moraines.
5. If the deposited moraine clay gets into contact with flowing melt water, it may erode the moraine clay and transport the material over great distances. When the speed of the flowing melt water subsides the particles of the melt water are deposited. The Stones first, then the gravel and sand, and finally the fine clay. In this process fine, graded strata with different grain sizes arise. They are called melt water deposits. Melt water deposits are particularly visible at coasts with clay and sand cliffs – and in gravel pits. On west Møn there are many melt water valleys. Stege Nor and its continuation towards the east is an old melt water valley. The ice and the water are consequently the two large forces which created the Danish landscape – and that of Møn.
6. At the end of the Glacial Age when the ice melted, the sea rose and the land area shrunk. Along the coasts the hilltops and ridges were transformed into islands and peninsulas. The hollows and valleys were drowned and became coves, bays or fjords. At this point in time, Møn - beside a large main island - consisted of a number of small islands or islets. Some of them have existed up to our time, when they became connected with Møn after comprehensive drainage and land reclamation. This is the case with the islands of Koster Land, Borren and Egholm. The flat land round these former islands is thus old seabed. The now reclaimed Borre Fjord was navigable far into the Middle Ages. Borre By was then situated on an island in the fjord.
THE COASTS OF MØN
The coast is eroded at places. At other places it grows by deposit. The part of Møn facing the Baltic Sea is eroded – Møn becomes smaller. The part facing Zealand and Falster grows by deposit – Møn becomes larger.
7. Erosion Coasts: If you walk along the beaches of "the far side" of Møn – from Nordfelt via Møns Klint to Hårbølle – you will frequently pass various cliffs of sand and clay. In these cliffs you can look directly at the different strata. It is easy to find moraine clay strata and melt water strata. On the beach and in the water there are boulders, which were once embedded in the moraine clay.
At Møns Klint the erosion of the sea is particularly visible. As the sea can only erode until a certain depth, all along Møns Klint you can see remains of the old cliff like a shallow shelf – a flat – all the way round the cliff.
8. Deposit Coasts: If you walk along the beaches of "the inner side" of Møn – from Ulvshale via Koster to Fanefjord – you will frequently pass various types of deposit coasts. Typical, shallow areas with large forests of reed and salt meadows with grass.
9. The peninsula Ulvshale was created by the deposit of beach ridges – consisting of material from Møns Klint, particularly flint stone. When the chalk of the cliff with its flint strata is eroded, current and waves transport the material along the Møn coasts. The fine particles of the chalk are transported far. The waves deposit the flint stones as beach ridges on Ulvshale – and at Hårbølle Pynt. On Ulvshale the beach ridges are seen very clearly at many places in the forest of Ulvshale." (
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"Møns Klint can be reached by road either directly from Stege or from Klintholm Havn. In the summer, there is a regular bus service. Accommodation is available within the cliff area itself or in hotels and pensions in the vicinity. There is a camping site close to the main entrance to the park and a youth hostel nearby." (
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There is no access fee to enter the area, however, there is a small fee to park your car.