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Blinkerwall

Underwater Underwater

Blick vom Scharberg über das Salzhaff und weiter über die Mecklenburger Bucht nach Fehmarn — Ch.Pagenkopf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Where: Baltic Sea, Germany
Built by: Stone Age hunters
Era: about 11,000 years ago
Known for: A stone wall over half a mile long, likely used to herd reindeer; announced in 2024.
How it went under: Drowned when the Baltic rose.

Southern part of Mecklenburg Bight — Landesamt für innere Verwaltung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Amt für Geoinformation, Vermessungs- und Katasterwesen, CC BY 3.0 de

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Background

The Bay of Mecklenburg (German: Mecklenburger Bucht or Mecklenburgische Bucht; Danish: Mecklenburg Bugt), also known as the Mecklenburg Bay 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, which includes the Bay of Wismar and the Bay of Lübeck, connects to the Bay of Kiel in the northwest. Notable ports in the bay are Lübeck, Rostock and Wismar.

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