Westerplatte
Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland, located on the Baltic Sea coast mouth of the Dead Vistula, in the Gdańsk harbour channel. From 1926 to 1939, it was the location of a Polish Military Transit Depot, sanctioned within the territory of the Free City of Danzig.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Osmar Valdebenito, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monument at Westerplatte and Westerplatte Cemetery.
Monument at Westerplatte
Photo: Schaengel, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The Westerplatte Monument, also known as the Monument to the Defenders of the Coast is a war memorial located in Gdańsk, Poland, on the Westerplatte Peninsula in the Gdańsk harbour channel constructed between 1964–1966 to commemorate the Polish defenders…
Wisłoujście Fortress
Park
Photo: Konikmorski, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
Wisłoujście Fortress is a historic fortress located in Gdańsk by the Martwa Wisła river, by an old estuary of the river Vistula, flowing into the Bay of Gdańsk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nowy Port and Wisłoujście.
Nowy Port
Suburb
Photo: Dawid Galus, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
Nowy Port is a district of the city of Gdańsk, Poland, at the mouth of the Martwa Wisła.
Westerplatte
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula in the harbour channel of Gdańsk, Poland
- Category: landform
- Location: Pomorskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
54.40945° or 54° 24′ 34″ northLongitude
18.6734° or 18° 40′ 24″ eastElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
9F6WCM5F+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 1334328771OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peninsula
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Westerplatte” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويستربلات”
- Belarusian: “Вестэрплятэ”
- Bulgarian: “Вестерплате”
- Catalan: “Westerplatte”
- Cebuano: “Westerplatte”
- Chinese: “維斯特布拉德”
- Chinese: “维斯特布拉德”
- Chinese: “西盤半島”
- Czech: “Westerplatte”
- Dutch: “Westerplatte”
- Esperanto: “Westerplatte”
- Estonian: “Westerplatte poolsaar”
- Finnish: “Westerplatte”
- French: “Westerplatte”
- German: “Westerplatte”
- Greek: “Βεστερπλάτε”
- Italian: “Westerplatte”
- Japanese: “ヴェステルプラッテ”
- Korean: “베스테르플라테”
- Latvian: “Vesterplate”
- Lithuanian: “Vesterplatė”
- Malay: “Westerplatte”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Westerplatte”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Westerplatte”
- Norwegian: “Westerplatte”
- Persian: “وسترپلاته”
- Polish: “Westerplatte”
- Romanian: “Westerplatte”
- Russian: “Вестерплатте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Westerplatte”
- Spanish: “Westerplatte”
- Swedish: “Westerplatte”
- Turkish: “Westerplatte”
- Ukrainian: “Вестерплатте”
- Urdu: “ویسٹرپلیٹ”
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