Møns Klint and Borgring starting at Stege

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. 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.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Møns Klint is where the day begins. Next is Stevns Klint.

2. 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.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Stevns Klint comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Borgring.

3. 3. 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.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach Borgring. Next is back through Stevns Klint.

4. 4. 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 Møns Klint.

5. 5. Møns Klint

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

   Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Back at Møns Klint. That is the ride.