thumb|right|220px|The river mouth of [[Świna at the Baltic Sea in Świnoujście, Poland]]
thumb|right|220px|coast east of [[Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, Germany]]
thumb|right|220px|[[Wolin National Park, Poland]]
thumb|220px|Breakwaters of Sarbinowo at sunset
The Bay of Pomerania or Pomeranian Bight ( ; ; ) is a basin in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the Pomeranian shores of Poland and Germany. It stretches between the northernmost tip of the island of Rügen called Gellort northwest of Cape Arkona in the west, and the village of Jarosławiec in the east. In the south, it is bounded by the islands of Usedom/Uznam and Wolin, which separate it from the Szczecin Lagoon which is flown through by the Oder River, and is connected to the bay by three straits, the Dziwna, Świna, and Peenestrom.
The Bay of Greifswald with the islands of Koos and Vilm is a large sub-bay in the southwest of the Bay of Pomerania. Apart from Rügen, Usedom/Uznam, and Wolin, the islands Greifswalder Oie and Ruden also lie in the Bay of Pomerania. Maximum depth is and salinity is about 8%. The main ports on the Bay of Pomerania are Mukran Port in Sassnitz-Mukran, the port of Świnoujście, the port of Kołobrzeg, the port of Greifswald on the mouth of the Ryck River in Greifswald-Wieck, the port of Dziwnów, and the port of Wolgast.
See also
- Bay of Pomerania Nature Reserve
External links
- Zrot : Tourism Site Western Pomerania (PL) (Polish, English, German)
- Zart : Polish Tourism Site Western Pomerania (PL) (Polish, English, German)
- German Tourism Site : Regional Tourist Board Vorpommern (D) (English, German, Swedish, Polish)