Bornholm

[bawrn-hawlm, bawrn-hohm, -hohlm]

noun

1. a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, S of Sweden. 227 sq. mi. (588 sq. km).

Bornholm

/ bɔrnˈhɔlm /

noun

1. an island in the Baltic Sea, south of Sweden: administratively part of Denmark. Chief town: Rønne. Pop: 43 956 (2003 est). Area: 588 sq km (227 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Prosecutors believe the suspects were part of a team that sailed a yacht called Andromeda from the German port of Rostock out into the Baltic near the Danish island of Bornholm.

From BBC

Then, on 26 September 2022, several explosions were recorded close to the Danish island of Bornholm that ruptured three of the four pipelines.

From BBC

Almost five millennia ago, hundreds of engraved, disc-shaped stones were deposited in a giant pit at the Neolithic Vasagård site on the small Danish island of Bornholm.

From Salon

Climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Bornholm analyzed ice cores from Greenland’s ice sheets and demonstrated that a major volcanic eruption occurred on the island 2,900 years ago.

From Salon

"Residents deposited them in ditches forming part of a causewayed enclosure together with the remains of ritual feasts in the form of animal bones, broken clay vessels, and flint objects around 2,900 BC," archaeologist Rune Iversen from the University of Copenhagen, who previously participated in site excavations led by the Museum of Bornholm and the National Museum, said in a statement.

From Salon