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Map of the canal. The Vistula Spit canal (Polish: Kanał przez Mierzeję Wiślaną), officially known as the Nowy Świat ship canal (Polish: Kanał żeglugowy Nowy Świat), [1] is a canal across the Polish section of the Vistula Spit that creates a second connection between the Vistula Lagoon and Gulf of Gdańsk.
Between 2019 and 2022, Poland built the Vistula Spit canal in their own portion of the lagoon, to create another water route out of the lagoon. Kaliningrad and Baltiysk are currently major seaports on the lagoon. Small port on the Vistula Lagoon in Frombork, Poland. It is an Important Bird Area of Poland. [1]
The name Vistula first appears in the written record of Pomponius Mela (3.33) in AD 40. Pliny in AD 77 in his Natural History names the river Vistla (4.81, 4.97, 4.100). The root of the name Vistula is often thought to come from Proto-Indo-European *weys-: 'to ooze, flow slowly' (cf. Sanskrit अवेषन् avēṣan "they flowed", Old Norse veisa "slime"), and similar elements appear in ...
The Vistula Spit (Polish: Mierzeja Wiślana; Russian: Балтийская коса, romanized: Baltiyskaya kosa; German: Danziger Nehrung, Frische Nehrung; Low German: Dantzker Nearing) is an aeolian sand spit, [1] or peninsular stretch of land, separating Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay, in the Baltic Sea, with its tip separated from the mainland by the Strait of Baltiysk.
Augustów Canal, listed as a Historic Monument of Poland as one of the most precious heritage sites of its kind in the country [1] Elbląg Canal, listed as a Historic Monument of Poland as one of the most precious heritage sites of its kind in the country [2] Freight vessel on the Gliwice Canal
English: This image, acquired by a Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite on 6 November 2022, shows the Vistula Delta, where the Vistula River, the largest river in Poland, which flows into the Baltic Sea. Date
Sambian peninsula Landsat satellite photo taken circa 2000. The Strait of Baltiysk (Russian: Балтийский пролив, Polish: Cieśnina Piławska, German: Pillauer Tief) is a strait enabling passage from the Baltic Sea into the brackish Vistula Lagoon, located in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
The Vistulan Boulevards are historical hydraulic boulevards used for flood management in Kraków, Poland. [1] The boulevards are structured from retaining walls (an upper, high and lower which is used to channel the river channel), [2] allowing the boulevards to perform a river port function.