DENMARK FANØ Island

Fanø is a Danish island in the North Sea off the coast of southwestern Denmark, and is the very northernmost of the Danish Wadden Sea Islands. Fanø Municipality (Danish: Fanø Kommune) is the kommune that covers the island and its seat is the town of Nordby. Island Fanø is separated from the mainland by the Wadden Sea over a span of approximately five kilometres (3.1 miles)., in the north at the closest point to the mainland 1.24 km. The island is 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) long and 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) wide, and it is located off the coast from the city of Esbjerg to which it is connected by ferry. The ferry ride takes 12 minutes.