SUMMARY

Presentation of 3 maps concerning the island of Rømø: Plate 1: The landscape elements (ecotypes). Plate 2: The man-made constructions as settlements, roads, dam, dikes and a harbour as well as plantations. Plate 3: A land use map supplemented by noise zoning of road traffic, an interference leaving a minor part of the area as being untouched nature.

Plate 1: 1) Tidal flats, low lying, 2) Creek, 3) Channel, 4) Tidal inlet, 5) Tidal flat, sandy, 6) High sand, 7) Sandy salt marsh, 8) beach ridge, 9) Break-through of the sea, 10) Deflation plain, 11) Dunes, minor forms, 12) Dunes, greater forms, 13) Salt marsh of the foreland, 14) Muddy tidal flats, 15) Phragmites salt marsh, 16) Agricultural area, 17) Polder area, 18) Marine foreland, dike burst.

Plate 2:1) Macadam main road, 2) Macadam road, 3) Gravel road, 4) Earth road, 5) Sand road, 6) Dike, 7) Line of poles, 8) Settlements, 9) Recreational area, 10) Camping, 11) Plantations.

Plate 3: 12) Agricultural area, diked in, 13) Agricultural area,
undiked.

Principles of nature conservancy as well as the future
problems of agriculture on the island are discussed.

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Moritz, E. (1903): Die Nordsee-insel Rom. Mitt. d. Geogr. Gesellschaft,
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