Bornholm (;
Old Norse:
Burgundaholmr) is a
Danish island in the
Baltic Sea, to the east of most of
Denmark, south of
Sweden, northeast of
Germany and northwest of
Poland. The main industries on the island include
fishing, arts and crafts such as
glass production and
pottery using locally worked
clay, and
dairy farming.
Tourism is important during the summer. The topography of the island consists of dramatic rock formations in the north (unlike the rest of
Denmark, which is mostly gentle rolling hills) sloping down towards pine and
deciduous forests (greatly damaged by storms in the 1950s) and farmland in the middle and sandy beaches in the south.