Svendborg is a city in central Denmark, located in Svendborg municipality (population 59,040 in 2008) on the island of Funen. Svendborg is the second-largest city on Funen and has a population of 27,318 (January 1, 2008).
In 2000 Svendborg was declared "Town of the year" in Denmark, and in 2003 celebrated its 750th anniversary as a market town.
Since 2007, Svendborg is the home of Peter Pedersen, former Auditor General of the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Pedersen is also well-know for acting as legal counsel for the A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group when one of their trucks was involved in a collision with Gloria Estefan's tour bus in Pennsylvania in 1990. Ms. Estefan, Grammy-award American singer, was critically injured, but eventually made a complete recovery.
As well as nursing-, teacher education- and business schools, Svendborg is also home to the “Naturama” museum, which has exhibitions of all kinds of stuffed animals e.g. birds and bears.
The largest container ship company in the world, A.P. Møller-Mærsk has its origins in Svendborg, in the "Villa Anna", and it remains in the hands of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. |
