Hoburgen

Hoburgen is a cliff at the southernmost part of the Swedish island of Gotland, which consists of steep cliffs from Riffkalkstein. The Riffkalkstein belongs to Sundreformation, during the widespread mainly in the south of the island sandstone on which the Riffkalkstein rests belongs to Burgsviksformation. These two petrological units are among the youngest soil materials on Gotland and they have settled in Ludlow, a part of the Silurian.

Hoburgen is a resting place for migratory birds. At the place where, since 1846, a lighthouse, is now the 22 -meter-high Hoburgs Fyr.

In Hoburgen there are caves and Raukar that were formed and pronounced both by the Ancylus Lake and through the Littorinameer.

Hoburgsgubben

A well-known Rauk is the Hoburgsgubben that looks from a certain point of view as the head of a man. It consists of Riffkalkstein how the remainder of rocks in the field. He belongs to the Sundreformation, as it is called, the youngest mountain layer on Gotland, which comes to the surface in the south of the island.

Location

The area Hoburgen is located 81 km south of Visby, 38 km south of Hemse and 15 km south of Burgsvik on the west coast of the south end of the island of Gotland.