This 17-acre scrap of land – home to a research station for animal diseases and a cemetery for infected carcasses – symbolises how a Scandinavian country once famed for liberalism and tolerance has become the toughest on refugees in Western Europe.
Denmark's immigration minister even posed with a cake on social media to celebrate passing her 50th law restricting migrants.
Recent measures include a ban on face veils, confiscating jewellery from refugees and designating 29 urban areas as 'ghettos' subject to special laws to control residents.
Other ideas debated by MPs include prohibiting ritual slaughter of animals for halal food and barring women teachers from wearing head-scarves.
Why the liberal nation of Denmark will dump unwanted refugees on a remote iskand.
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