Ejlinge is a small, currently uninhabited Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 island located close to Æbelø

Æbelø

Æbelø is a Danish island in the Kattegat, off Funen's north coast. The island covers 2,09 km², between the island and Funen there are 4 smaller islands. There are 2 inhabitants on the island in the summer, in the winter it is defacto uninhabited...

 off the north coast of Funen

Funen

Funen , with a size of 2,984 km² , is the third-largest island of Denmark following Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy, and the 163rd largest island of the world. Funen is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 454,358 inhabitants . The main city is Odense, connected to the...

, 8 km north-east of Bogense

Bogense

]Bogense is a town in central Denmark, located on Funen in Nordfyn municipality, Region of Southern Denmark. The town has a population of 3,679 .The city is connected to Odense and Middelfart via busses operated by Fynbus....

. It has an area of 16 hectare

Hectare

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s and only reaches a height of 4 metres above sea level. To the east the island is a glacial moraine

Moraine

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past glacial maximum. This debris may have been plucked off a valley floor as a glacier advanced or it may have...

 whereas the western part consists of coastal meado

Meadow

A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants . The term is from Old English mædwe. In agriculture a meadow is grassland which is not grazed by domestic livestock but rather allowed to grow unchecked in order to make hay...

s with a rich bird life.

The western part of the island was under cultivation until 1994. There is a farmhouse on the island which was built in 1875. There is a house on the island. The island is connected to the Lindø peninsula by an approximately 1 km long tidal road.