Fiskergadestenen aka "Southern Tip of Norway"

This mighty stone weighing 24.1 tonnes appeared in the summer of 2020 during excavation work in connection with the municipality's separate sewerage of Fiskergade 100 m south of the stone's current location.

Provenance: When excavation work in the street started, the workers were contacted by 91-year-old Anders Christian Jensen, who lived nearby and grew up close to the site. He warned the workers: "Watch out, you will soon come across something big – a mighty rock, namely the southern tip of Norway". The workers were amused by the warning: "we are equipped with large excavators, so we will do it"! But soon they realized that Anders Christian was really right – the stone was there – 5 m below the roadway, and it was challengingly large, so help was needed. A mobile crane and flatbed truck were requisitioned to pull the colossus out of the depths and transport it away from the site.

The stone was located when Fiskergade was first sewered in 1952. Anders Chr.'s parents lived in Fiskergade 2 at the time, so it was from here that he knew about the stone's presence under the street and about its somewhat joking nickname. At that time, you had to blow up a piece of the stone in order to pass with the sewer pipe. The blasting scar is clearly visible at the bottom edge of the stone facing the sea.

TV2 Norge had learned of the news that the "Southern Tip of Norway" had unexpectedly appeared on the south side of the Skagerrak close to the coast of Hirtshals. The TV channel carried a report in the nationwide evening news about the discovery of the competitor to Norway's southernmost point at Lindesnes Lighthouse.

Geology: The fisherman's street stone consists mainly of the mineral kalifeldspar, but also of other smaller mineral grains - plagioclas, quartz, biotite and hornblende. Such a mineral mix forms the rock granite. The Fiskergade stone has been visited by geologist Henrik J. Granat from GEUS, who states that the stone could easily have been brought to Hirtshals with the northeast ice, which exceeded Vendsyssel 23,000 to 19,000 years ago. The bearing course from Hirtshals to the northeast points in the direction of Bohuslen on the west coast of Sweden and the mineral composition of the stone corresponds to granite from Bohuslen.

The Fisherman's Street Stone probably stands alone here on the clay, but on the beach and in the sea off the coast there are many stone deposits, and some of these probably have the same origin as the Fiskergade stone. The stone is listed on the GEUS website: www.kæmpesten.dk  - Read here the legends and geological facts about the country's 150 registered giant stones.