Stolpe bench

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Coordinates: 54 ° 55 ′  N , 16 ° 45 ′  E The Stolpe Bank (Polish: Ławica Słupska ) is a shoal ( sand bank ) in the Baltic Sea off the Polish coast, about 16 nautical miles north of Ustka , the former Stolpmünde. It is named after the river Stolpe (Polish: Słupia ), which flows into the Baltic Sea there.

The Stolpe Bank extends in a generally west-east direction over a length of about 24 nautical miles and is up to 10 nautical miles wide. The water depth is generally 10 to 18 meters, in the northwest in some places even only 8 to 9 meters. At the south-east edge the seabed falls quite steeply down to 29 to 33 meters, while it sinks only gradually at the other edges. The Stolper Schwelle , which separates the Bornholm Basin in the west from the Stolper Rinne and thus the Gotland Basin in the east, extends from the Stolpe Bank to the north .

The sandbank is located within Poland's Exclusive Economic Zone . Although it consists largely of sand , it also contains extensive gravel deposits, from which around 3 million m 3 of gravel were extracted from 1985 to 2003 .

The shipping route from Gdańsk (Danzig) runs south of the Stolpe Bank along the Pomeranian coast; there the Steuben was sunk on February 10, 1945 . A deeper fairway runs north of the Stolpe Bank; there the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk on January 30, 1945 .

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