Kap Arkona
Cape Arkona, also spelled Arcona, is a 45-metre high cape on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It forms the tip of the Wittow peninsula, just a few kilometres north of the Jasmund National Park.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: cape on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
- Also known as: “Cape Arkona”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jaromarsburg and Siebenschneiderstein.
Jaromarsburg
Archaeological site
The Jaromarsburg was a cult site for the Slavic tribe of Rani dedicated to the god Svantovit and used from the 9th to the 12th century. It was located on the northeastern tip of the Baltic Sea island of Rügen at Cape Arkona, and was protected on two sides by the cliffed coast and from the land side by a Slavic burgwall.
Siebenschneiderstein
Stone
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Putgarten and Vitt.
Putgarten
Village
Vitt
Village
Nobbin
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Kap Arkona
- Categories: cape, headland, and locality
- Location: Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen, Rügen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
54.6794° or 54° 40′ 46″ north
Longitude
13.4332° or 13° 25′ 60″ east
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
Open location code
9F6MMCHM+Q7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
Discover Kap Arkona from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Kap Arkona” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaap Arkona”
- Arabic: “راس كاب أركونا”
- Basque: “Arkona lurmuturra”
- Bulgarian: “Аркона”
- Catalan: “Cap Arkona”
- Cebuano: “Kap Arkona”
- Chinese: “阿克纳海岬”
- Chinese: “阿尔科纳海岬”
- Chinese: “阿爾科納海岬”
- Chinese: “阿科納海岬”
- Chinese: “阿科納角”
- Chinese: “阿科纳海岬”
- Chinese: “阿科纳角”
- Chinese: “阿考納海岬”
- Chinese: “阿考纳海岬”
- Czech: “Arkona”
- Danish: “Arkona”
- Dutch: “Kaap Arkona”
- Esperanto: “Arkona”
- French: “Cap Arkona”
- French: “Kap Arkona”
- German: “Kap Arkona”
- Hungarian: “Arkona-fok”
- Indonesian: “Tanjung Arkona”
- Italian: “Capo Arkona”
- Japanese: “アルコナ”
- Japanese: “アルコナ岬”
- Kashubian: “Arkóna”
- Kazakh: “Аркона”
- Korean: “아르코나곶”
- Korean: “케이프 아르코나”
- Lithuanian: “Arkonos kyšulys”
- Macedonian: “Аркона”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapp Arkona”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kapp Arkona”
- Norwegian: “Kapp Arkona”
- Polish: “Arkona”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Arkona”
- Romanian: “Capul Arkona”
- Russian: “Аркона”
- Russian: “Кап-Аркона”
- Scots: “Cape Arkona”
- Serbian: “Рт Аркона”
- Silesian: “Arkona”
- Silesian: “Arkōna”
- Slovak: “Arkona”
- Slovenian: “Kap Arkona”
- Slovenian: “rt Arkona”
- Spanish: “Cabo Arkona”
- Swedish: “Kap Arkona”
- Ukrainian: “Аркона”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Аркона”
- Vietnamese: “Mũi Arkona”
- Western Frisian: “Kaap Arkona”
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