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Corselitze Forest

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31% trees around it and 763 species recorded.

51Forestyas Score

ForestFungiWildlife

  • trees within 3 km31%
  • wild within 10 km72%
  • species recorded763

The forest around

31% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 94%Grassland 4%Water 1%Cropland 1%Trees 23%Grassland 7%Water 54%Cropland 15%Built-up 0%Trees 6%Grassland 6%Water 57%Cropland 31%Built-up 0%Trees 7%Grassland 7%Wetland 0%Water 57%Cropland 28%Built-up 1%31%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km23%
  • 3–6 km6%
  • 6–10 km7%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees23%
  • Grassland7%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water54%
  • Cropland15%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

763 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

European Alder
European AlderAlnus glutinosa87 recordsAEngelhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
False Oat-grass
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius76 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense73 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common Reed
Common ReedPhragmites australis73 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria72 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Red fescue
Red fescueFestuca rubra69 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 12:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus68 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Common yarrow
Common yarrowAchillea millefolium67 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Hemp-agrimony
Hemp-agrimonyEupatorium cannabinum64 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior63 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Water Mint
Water MintMentha aquatica58 recordsBurschik at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild angelica
Wild angelicaAngelica sylvestris58 recordsUnknown author · Public domain

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

51out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 31%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 72%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 763Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan3°0°60 mm
  2. Feb3°0°47 mm
  3. Mar5°1°42 mm
  4. Apr10°4°34 mm
  5. May15°9°47 mm
  6. Jun18°13°64 mm
  7. Jul21°15°70 mm
  8. Aug21°15°78 mm
  9. Sep17°12°54 mm
  10. Oct12°9°64 mm
  11. Nov8°5°58 mm
  12. Dec4°2°62 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Corselitze Forest.

Forest on the Danish island of Falster

Corselitze Forest is a forest in Denmark.

Seen from space, 31% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 72% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

763 species have been recorded around it: 598 plants, 59 fungi, 77 birds and 29 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Alder, False Oat-grass and Creeping Thistle.

The best time to walk is from June to July and in September.

Hesnæs - udsigt mod syd
Hubertus45 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Corselitze Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmSjællandsleden, Sjællandsleden 2012, Falster Rundt and 3 more
  • 5picnic sites within 4 km
  • 10shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 7car parks within 3 km
  • 17campsites within 10 kmHesnæs Badested parkering, Møn Camping Hårbølle Strand, MOJO Camping Falster and 14 more
  • 5places to stay within 10 kmBygagergaard, Feriekoloni, Hotel Landsmans and 2 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Corselitze Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Præstebjerg9.0 kmPregehøj18 kmBavnehøj22 kmKulsbjerge22 km
Islandyasthe island
Falster514 km²
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
MønBortle 3 · 22 kmNyordBortle 3 · 24 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Valdemarsegen 2023
Bjørn Klinke · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Corselitze Forest

Denmark

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 31%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 763Species

Darß Forest

Germany · 51 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 841Species

See the guide

Rostock Heath

Germany · 70 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 1,357Species

See the guide

Gribskov

Denmark · 130 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,880Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5173142) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species8,557 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Darkskyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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