Surely they're not man-made, those land-bridges on either side of Kaliningrad?
April 15, 2012 10:04 PM   Subscribe

BalticFilter: what's with those two isthmuses (isthmi?) stretching NE from Gdansk?

There's one on either side of Kaliningrad (Former Königsberg) -- the southern one down to Gdansk (German Danzig) and the northern, up into Lithuania. What are they called? Anything historical interesting occur there?
posted by Rash to Science & Nature (4 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
The one touching Gdansk is called the Vistula Spit.
posted by AMSBoethius at 10:12 PM on April 15, 2012


One of them seems to be the Curonian Spit.
posted by Monsieur Caution at 10:12 PM on April 15, 2012


Response by poster: Ah, thank you! The Curonian Spit is reminding me a little of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
posted by Rash at 10:20 PM on April 15, 2012


There's also the Hel peninsula
posted by Tom-B at 4:56 AM on April 16, 2012


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