Æbelø (English: ''apple-island'') is a

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island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

in the

Kattegat The Kattegat (; sv, Kattegatt ) is a sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the west, the Danish Straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Skåne in Sweden ...

, off

Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...

's north coast. The island covers an area of 2.09 km². In between the island and Funen, there are 4 smaller islands. Æbelø has 2 inhabitants in the summer, in the winter it is de facto uninhabited. Between 1938 and 1943, the owner of the island was Kaj Dindler. There is a lighthouse on the island. The Island is connected to Æbeløholm via a 1,5–2 km

sandbar In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. ...

called Brådet, that is periodically submerged.

Sources

Æbelø
Aage V. Jensen Naturfond
Nationalt Geologisk Interesseområde Æbelø

Natura 2000-Gebiet Nr. 108 (Æbelø, havet syd for og Nærå)
Islands of Denmark Danish islands in Kattegat Uninhabited islands of Denmark Geography of Nordfyn Municipality {{Denmark-island-stub