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shipping channel close to the shore, where the water gets deep fast making it suitable for angling. This relatively deep and narrow stretch also tends to concentrates shoals of herring. Access by car is easy, with space for parking along a dam and unpaved road following the shore a couple of kilometers down from Voer.
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England and 230 for Germany. Randers at the end of Randers fjord is Denmarks 6. largest town with 60.895 inhabitants. Denmark has a total population of 5.6 million people. The language is Danish, with many
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