Ristinge Cliff is a geological attraction, 30 metres high, with a unique wild flora and fauna.
It is possible to walk along a path on the top of the clif. The cliff top affords a magnificent view across the entire coast and the cove beyond.
Traces of two different Ice Ages and an interglacial period are visible here. The various strata are clearly visible in the cliff: the soft white quartz sand layer and the yellow ridges of moraine clay.
View from Ristinge Cliff to the sea below.
The poles are used as support for fishing nets.— at Langeland.
The sea around Langeland is rich in Common Eider, ederfugl (Somateria mollissima)
Common Eider is the largest duck found in Europe and in North America
It feeds on crustaceans and molluscs, with mussels being a favoured food. The Eider will eat mussels by swallowing them whole; the shells are then crushed in their gizzard and excreted. When eating a crab the Eider will remove all of its claws and legs and then eat the body in a similar fashion.
The eider's nest is built close to the sea and is lined with the celebrated eiderdown, plucked from the female's breast.
Male Yellowhammer, Gulspurv (Emberiza citrinella).
Female Yellowhammer
Ristinge burial mound.
Approximately 86,000 prehistoric burial mounds from
the time span 4000 BC to 1000 AD have been recorded in Denmark, leaving an average of about two mounds per km2. The Early Bronze Age from 1700-1000 BC was one of the most intensive mound building periods
Ristinge klint is a protected area. Part of it is owned by the Danish state. To avoid that the area is overgrown by scrub, a cattle grazing has been introduced to area supported by the state.
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