Møllehøj

Where is Møllehøj?

Møllehøj is part of the Ejer Bjerge, Jutland.

You will find it in: Denmark.

Summit: 55.977° N, 9.826° E

The story behind it

Denmark is a flat country, so its highest point is not a peak but a swelling in a ploughed field that a walker can miss without a sign. The hill was piled up by ice: during the last cold period glaciers pushed sand, clay and stones together into long ridges, and this one stayed a little taller than the rest. Its name means mill hill, because a windmill once stood here where the breeze was strongest; a big round millstone now marks the top, lying in the grass like a flat table. Two neighbours nearby are almost exactly as tall, which has given the area a friendly rivalry and plenty of signposts. Getting there is easy: a short path leads from the road, and from the top the eye travels over fields, hedges and red farm roofs.

Find it on the globe

Møllehøj is there as a small peak with its own shape — a horn, a ridge, a volcano — standing on the surface. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.

It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.