Bay of Mecklenburg

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Mecklenburg Bay (German: Mecklenburgische Bucht or Mecklenburger Bucht, Danish: Mecklenburg Bugt, and Polish: Zatoka Meklemburska), or Bay of Mecklenburg or Mecklenburg Bight, is a long narrow basin making up the southwestern finger-like arm of the Baltic Sea, between the shores of Germany to the south and the Danish islands of Lolland, Falster, and Møn to the north, the shores of Jutland to the west, and joining the largest part of the Baltic to the east.

The Bay of Mecklenburg connects to the Bay of Kiel in the northwest.

The Bay of Wismar and the Bay of Lübeck are parts of Mecklenburg Bay.

Notable ports in the Bay of Mecklenburg are Lübeck, Rostock and Wismar.

[edit] In literature

Both arms of the bight and the three ports—Lübeck, Rostock, and Wismar—all play as a scene location in the best selling alternate history Ring of Fire series in the novel 1633. The Defense of Luebeck and Battle of Wismar detail the fictional accounts in the neohistorical timeline. The greater bay is the locale of a third Baltic naval battle in relief of the fictional Siege of Lubeck in the sequel 1634: The Baltic War..

[edit] See also

• Lighthouses and lightvessels in Germany
• Lighthouses and lightvessels in Denmark