The
Limfjord (
DanishDanish is one of the North Germanic languages , a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany where it holds the...
:
Limfjorden ) is a shallow
soundIn geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
in
DenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
that separates the island of
Vendsyssel-ThyThe North Jutlandic Island , Vendsyssel-Thy, or simply Jutland north of the Limfjord are lesser-used names for the northernmost part of Denmark and of Jutland. It is more common to refer to the three traditional districts Vendsyssel, Hanherred and Thy...
from the rest of
Jutland PeninsulaThe Jutland Peninsula or more historically the Cimbrian Peninsula is a peninsula in Europe, divided between Denmark and Germany. The names are derived from the Jutes and the Cimbri....
. It extends from Thyborøn Channel on the
North SeaThe North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean. It is more than long and wide, with an area of around...
to
HalsHals Municipality ceased to exist on January 1, 2007, due to Kommunalreformen It was located in North Jutland County. The municipality covered an area of 191 km², and had a total population of 11,448 . Its last mayor was Bent Sørensen, a member of the Social Democrats political party...
on the
KattegatThe Kattegat , or Kattegatt is a sea area bounded by Jutland , and Scania, Halland and Bohuslän . The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Oresund and the Danish Straits...
. It is approximately 180
kilometreThe kilometre , symbol km is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second....
s long and of an irregular shape with several bays, narrowings,
and islands, most notably
MorsMors or Morsø is a 367.7 square kilometer large land locked island in the shallow sound called Limfjorden in Denmark. The main town on the island is called Nykøbing Mors. Geologically Mors is unique...
. It is deepest at Hvalpsund (24 metres).
The
Limfjord (
DanishDanish is one of the North Germanic languages , a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany where it holds the...
:
Limfjorden ) is a shallow
soundIn geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
in
DenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
that separates the island of
Vendsyssel-ThyThe North Jutlandic Island , Vendsyssel-Thy, or simply Jutland north of the Limfjord are lesser-used names for the northernmost part of Denmark and of Jutland. It is more common to refer to the three traditional districts Vendsyssel, Hanherred and Thy...
from the rest of
Jutland PeninsulaThe Jutland Peninsula or more historically the Cimbrian Peninsula is a peninsula in Europe, divided between Denmark and Germany. The names are derived from the Jutes and the Cimbri....
. It extends from Thyborøn Channel on the
North SeaThe North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean. It is more than long and wide, with an area of around...
to
HalsHals Municipality ceased to exist on January 1, 2007, due to Kommunalreformen It was located in North Jutland County. The municipality covered an area of 191 km², and had a total population of 11,448 . Its last mayor was Bent Sørensen, a member of the Social Democrats political party...
on the
KattegatThe Kattegat , or Kattegatt is a sea area bounded by Jutland , and Scania, Halland and Bohuslän . The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Oresund and the Danish Straits...
. It is approximately 180
kilometreThe kilometre , symbol km is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second....
s long and of an irregular shape with several bays, narrowings,
and islands, most notably
MorsMors or Morsø is a 367.7 square kilometer large land locked island in the shallow sound called Limfjorden in Denmark. The main town on the island is called Nykøbing Mors. Geologically Mors is unique...
. It is deepest at Hvalpsund (24 metres). Its main port is
AalborgAalborg , sometimes written as Ålborg, is a city in Denmark. Its population, as of 2009, is 122,461, making it the fourth largest in the country after Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense. The earliest settlements date back to around 700 AD. Its location by the Limfjord made it an important harbour...
, where a railway and a road bridge are built across
Limfjorden to Nørresundby, while motorway E45 passes it through a tunnel to the east.
Limfjorden was originally connected with the North Sea.
Canute the GreatCnut the Great , also known as Canute or Knut or Cnut Sweynsson, was a Viking king of England and Denmark, Norway, and parts of Sweden...
sailed into it in 1027 on his way back from England. According to
Saxo GrammaticusSaxo Grammaticus also known as Saxo cognomine Longus was a Danish historian, thought to have been a secular clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund. He is the author of the first full history of Denmark.- Life :...
it closed at some time around 1200. On February 3, 1825 a flood pierced an opening, the so-called Agger Channel, in the north of the 13 km long and less than 1 km wide
isthmusAn isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. Of note, the Isthmus of Panama connects the continents of North and South America , and the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt connects Africa and Asia .Canals are often built on isthmuses where they may be particularly advantageous to...
, the Agger Tange, which had until then linked Vendsyssel-Thy with the rest of
JutlandJutland , historically also called Cimbria, forms the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish-German border to its south...
.
In 1862, another flood pierced another opening, the Thyborøn Channel, through the remainder of Agger Tange
(see satellite image). Agger Channel was continuously filling with sand, and was eventually closed in 1877.
Limfjorden is notable for its tasty
musselsThe blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, is a medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae.-Distribution:Blue mussels are found on the North Atlantic coast of North America, Europe, and in other temperate and polar waters around the world....
(
Mytilus edulis)
http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/projects/mabene/page/workplan/. Gourmets appreciate its oysters which are considered to be of extraordinary size and quality.
Danish