Bulbjerg

57.15829.0245Koordinaten: 57 ° 9 ' N, 9 ° 1' O

The Bulbjerg is a limestone rock on the coast of the Jammer bay in the north of Jutland. The towering clear from the coastline up to 47 meter high rock is at its core from the Lower Danian Bryozoan, which is covered by glacial and post-glacial deposits.

The rock sticking up about the birth of Christ (Christ's birth ) out as an island of the then large parts of Thy and Hanherred covering Littorinameeres. At this time, the steep coastal originated in the north and west. Since then, the area has fallen by dry land uplift and silting. Bulbjerg is today surrounded by upscale erstwhile seabed. Due to this geological evolution of the publications Bulbjerg Island ( Bulbjerg Ø ) is spoken even today in many (mainly Danish ), represents the northern limit of Bulbjerg.

Just before the rock rises, the stump of a former rock needle from the sea on: Skarreklit. By the ocean surf at first eroded the connection between this rock section and the mainland and the single spire was born. In 1978, broke off the tip and only the still visible stump remained. Skarreklit (or his remains ) is the only pinnacle of Denmark outside of Bornholm.

In spring and early summer, the rocks of up to 500 breeding pairs of kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) is populated. It is next to Helgoland is the only breeding range of this species in Central Europe. At the same time Bulbjerg the only bird cliff in Denmark is.

At the foot of the rock to leave fossils (eg, sea urchins and sea urchin spines ) glean.