Tromper Wiek

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The Tromper Wiek is a bay on the Baltic Sea between the peninsulas of Wittow and Jasmund on the island of Rügen in northeast Germany.Die General Karte No. 1 – Schwerin-Rostock-Rügen, 1:200,000 scale, Mairs Geographische Verlag/Falk Verlag, Ostfildern, 2008.

This bay (locally: Wiek) runs in a wide arc from Cape Arkona in the north, through the villages of Juliusruh and Glowe on both ends of the Schaabe spit, to the start of the Rügen chalk cliff area of Stubnitz east of Lohme.

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Some claim that the bay is named after the Dutch admiral Cornelis Tromp (1629–1691),[https://www.ruegenurlaub.de/ruegen-a-z/tromper-wiek.html Tromper Wiek] at ruegenurlaub.de. Retrieved 29 December 2021. although on a 1618 map of the area the bay is named Trumper Wick.Elmar Klemm, Maik Teubner, [http://www.deguwa.org/data/File/website/Ausbildung/NAS%20Berichte/Wittow142_Bericht-Final.pdf Detaillierte Befundaufnahme eines neuen Wrackfunds in der Tromper Wiek/Rügen inklusive Recherchen zur möglichen Bestimmung des Schiffstyps], p. 5 (retrieved January 30, 2025)