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Skagen: Old Church
Old Church, which was buried to the roof in sand following a storm in 1775, in Skagen, Denmark.
Skagen
Denmark
Also known as: The Skaw
Skagen, city and port, northern Jutland, Denmark, near the northern tip of the peninsula on the Kattegat strait. Chartered in 1413, it is one of the principal fishing centres in Denmark. It is also a summer resort and, from the 1870s, the site of an artistsā and writersā colony. Notable are the RĆ„bjerg Mile sand dunes to the south and the Old Church, which has been buried to the roof in sand since a storm in 1775. At the Grenen headland, the most northerly point of Denmark (2 miles [3 km] north), the Skagerrak (an arm of the North Sea) and the Kattegat meet. Pop. (2008 est.) 8,941.
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