CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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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From Rødvig it runs 251 km to Rødvig; allow about 3 h 57 of riding. It goes by way of Borgring, Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, Kronborg Castle and back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 36 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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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Stevns Klint is where the day begins. Next is 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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Borgring comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Danish kings loved to hunt, and in the late seventeenth century they laid out forests north of Copenhagen in a geometric pattern of straight paths radiating from central points, designed for par force hunting, in which riders and hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. Jægersborg Dyrehave, the deer park, and Jægersborg Hegn are included in UNESCO's inscription of the par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, together with forests further north. The star-shaped network of rides is still visible, with numbered stone posts at the intersections that helped the hunters find their way.
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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn. Next is Kronborg Castle.
Hamlet never lived at Kronborg, but Shakespeare put him there, and the castle has been Elsinore in the imagination of the world ever since. It stands on a point of land at Helsingør where the Øresund narrows to about four kilometres, with Sweden clearly visible across the water, and for centuries it controlled one of the most important shipping lanes in Europe. King Frederik II built the castle in its Renaissance form in the 1570s and 1580s, and every ship passing through the strait had to stop and pay the Sound Dues, a toll that made the Danish crown rich for over four hundred years until it was abolished in 1857. Kronborg was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2000.
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Kronborg Castle, about halfway. Next is back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
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Read the complete Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn write-up.
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back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn sits at 184 km, about halfway. Next is back through Borgring.
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Read the complete Borgring write-up.
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back through Borgring comes up about 219 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stevns Klint.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
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Stevns Klint closes the day.
Stevns Klint → Borgring is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borgring → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Kronborg Castle is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kronborg Castle → back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → back through Borgring is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borgring → Stevns Klint is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.