Why this ride
From Køge it runs 678 km to Køge; allow about 11 h 12 of riding. On the way it passes Stevns Klint, Møns Klint, back through Stevns Klint and back through Møns Klint. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Borgring and Møns Klint
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 678 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 11 h 12
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Borgring
In 2014, archaeologists using laser scanning of the landscape noticed a faint circle in a field near Køge, on the Danish island of Zealand, about forty kilometres south-west of Copenhagen. Excavations confirmed what they had hoped: it was a Viking ring fortress, one of a small group of perfectly circular fortresses built in Denmark in the late tenth century, probably under King Harald Bluetooth. It was named Borgring, and it was the first new ring fortress to be found in Denmark in over sixty years.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Borgring is where the day begins. Next is Stevns Klint.
2. Stevns Klint
Stevns Klint is a white cliff of chalk and limestone, some fifteen kilometres long, on the east coast of Zealand, south of Copenhagen, and it holds one of the most important records of a global catastrophe. About sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, causing a mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and much of life on Earth. In the cliff, a thin, dark layer of clay, called the fish clay, marks that moment, and it contains high levels of iridium, a metal rare on Earth but common in asteroids. This layer was a key piece of evidence for the impact theory, and the cliff was listed by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Stevns Klint comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Møns Klint.
3. Møns Klint
Møns Klint is where the Baltic suddenly gets dramatic. Over a stretch of some six kilometres on the east coast of the island of Møn, chalk cliffs laid down in the late Cretaceous rise straight out of the sea, white and crumbling and streaked with grey flint, to a height of about a hundred metres and more. The highest point of the cliffs is the Dronningestolen, the Queen's Chair, reaching more than a hundred and twenty metres above the beach. Beech woods grow right to the edge, and in the green light under the trees the contrast with the chalk is a surprise.
Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 134 km into the recorded legs you reach Møns Klint.
4. Stevns Klint
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Stevns Klint, about halfway.
5. Møns Klint
The chalk cliffs of Møn rise out of the Baltic in a long white wall, with beech woods growing on top, and it is one of the few places in Denmark where the land stands up and makes an impression. At its highest the cliff is about 120 metres, and it runs for around six kilometres along the island's eastern coast. The chalk was laid down on the sea floor in the Cretaceous period, about 70 million years ago, from the skeletons of tiny marine organisms, and glaciers in the last Ice Age pushed it up and folded it into the shape you see.
Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Møns Klint sits at 174 km, about halfway. Next is back through Stevns Klint.
6. back through Stevns Klint
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Stevns Klint comes up about 441 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Møns Klint.
7. back through Møns Klint
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 540 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Møns Klint. Next is back through Stevns Klint.
8. back through Stevns Klint
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Stevns Klint, late in the day. Next is Borgring.
9. Borgring
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The route ends here after 678 km.
Leg by leg
Borgring to Stevns Klint
Borgring → Stevns Klint is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stevns Klint to Møns Klint
Stevns Klint → Møns Klint is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Møns Klint to Stevns Klint
Møns Klint → Stevns Klint is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Møns Klint to back through Stevns Klint
Møns Klint → back through Stevns Klint is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stevns Klint to back through Møns Klint
back through Stevns Klint → back through Møns Klint is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Møns Klint to back through Stevns Klint
back through Møns Klint → back through Stevns Klint is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stevns Klint to Borgring
back through Stevns Klint → Borgring is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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