Lindholm is a small Danish uninhabited island located in

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. Lindholm covers an area of . Until 2018 the island housed a field station belonging to the veterinary institute of the

Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark (), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and it is today ran ...

. Starting in 1938 a vaccine against

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was produced on the island. The Danish government considered but eventually shelved a plan to house, on the island, unsuccessful applicants for asylum with criminal records who could not otherwise be deported.

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Islands of Denmark Geography of Vordingborg Municipality {{Denmark-island-stub