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Stedformstenfund

Stedformstensfund Bornholm Overlay Map

I once found a rock on the Danish island of Bornholm that I thought looked a lot like the island of Bornholm itself. And I wondered if there were a long compound German word for "the serendipity of discovering a rock shaped like the place it came from." In deference to the Danish origins of the rock, I propose a Danish word instead of a German one: “Stedformstenfund.” And so I made a map overlay to show that I am not entirely inventing the resemblance between the rock and the island that from which the rock came.

A rock shaped like the Danish island of Bornholm on a red background
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