Hoburgen is a

rauk A rauk is a column-like landform in Sweden and Norway, often equivalent to a stack. Rauks often occur in groups called "raukfält" or "rauk fields". The limestone rauks of Gotland in the Baltic Sea are among the best known examples. Sweden R ...

(

sea stack A stack or sea stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion. Stacks are formed over time by wind and water, processes of coastal geomorphology. ...

) area on the Storsudret peninsula in Sundre socken on the southern tip of

Gotland Gotland (, ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the ...

, Sweden. The area contains one of Gotland's most noted rauks, the ''Hoburgsgubben'' ("Old Man Hoburg"). One of the

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...

s in the asteroid belt, 10104 Hoburgsgubben, is named after it. South of Hoburgen is the

Hoburg Shoal Hoburg Shoal, also known as Hoburgs bank, is a shoal located in the Baltic Sea, in the southern zone of the Gotland shelf, south of Hoburgen. The shoal is a bird reserve encompassing about . Geography It is a long shoal, comprising a northe ...

bird reserve. Hoburgen is also one of the permanent

weather station A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include tempera ...

s along the Swedish coast. It is reported from daily in the Swedish Shipping Forecast.

Climate

Hoburgen has a

maritime Maritime may refer to: Geography * Maritime Alps, a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps * Maritime Region, a region in Togo * Maritime Southeast Asia * The Maritimes, the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Princ ...

climate with less differences between summer and winter than mainland Sweden. Its position on the edge of the peninsula that makes up the southern tip of the island, ensures that wind mainly travels over the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...

, tempering the warm summers of around , preventing them from turning into heat waves. The very same effect ensures that Hoburgen rarely if ever gets cold winters by typical Swedish standards. Another effect is the

seasonal lag Seasonal lag is the phenomenon whereby the date of maximum average air temperature at a geographical location on a planet is delayed until some time after the date of maximum insolation (i.e. the summer solstice). This also applies to the minimum ...

causing August to surpass July on many years in terms of being the warmest month and February typically being the coldest.

References

Gotland Landforms of Gotland County Peninsulas of Sweden {{Gotland-geo-stub