Thousands of years ago gigantic ice sheets or glaciers moved down from the mountains of Norway across Sweden, pushing up the land ahead into hills. These Ice Age hillls are today the peninsula and ISLANDS of Denmark.The peninsula is known as Jutland and there are hundreds of islands, many of them uninhabited. Our capital COPENHAGEN is situated on the island of ZEALAND.

We can also thank the Ice Age glaciers for giving us such deep soil cover.There is hardly a single outcrop of rock to be seen in th entire country! The land is lowlying (ther highest point rises to a mere 200m) and the soil is good, indeed better than that of our Scandinavian neighbours NORWAY and SWEDEN.