Wind Holes
Very near the Heathen Church, we find a very unusual natural phenomenon, the so-called “Wind Holes”. In the loose masses of rock which had been tumbling down since the glacial ice had melted, a subterranean system of tubes was formed, one which spanned several hundred vertical metres. Cold air from higher layers sinks down and cools off even more, before flowing out of the wind holes as an icy blast of air. The climate in the immediate area around the Wind Holes is consistently colder than elsewhere and has developed its own very different vegetation.
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