Bornholm March 1953, the day of Stalin's death, Polish pilot Franciszek Jarecki defected from the Eastern Bloc and landed a MiG-15 fighter on the island. He was later granted asylum and rewarded for providing Western intelligence with (then) newest Soviet jet fighter. On the surface of Bornholm older geological formations can be seen better than in the rest of Denmark. "Stubbeløkken" – which is still operating (Danish "i drift") – and "Klippeløkken" granite quarries in Knudsker parish just east of central Rønne – and statistically a part of the town – are among the few remaining quarries of what was once
Bornholm Cable Bornholm Cable Bornholm Cable is one of the longest submarine three phase AC cables in the world. It is a 60 kV cable interconnecting the power grids of Bornholm and Sweden. The Bornholm Cable starts at 60 kV substation Hasle () and runs on its 1.4 kilometres as underground cable with a cross section of 400 square millimetres to the Baltic Sea, where the 43.5 kilometres long submarine cable section starts. At this section copper conductors with 240 square millimetres are used. From the landing point at Sweden it runs on a length of 700 metres as underground cable with