Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Rügen
Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen

Kap Arkona

Cape Arkona, also spelled Arcona, is a 45-metre high cape on the island of in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It forms the tip of the peninsula, just a few kilometres north of the .
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  • 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.

Archaeological site
The 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 at Cape Arkona, and was protected on two sides by the cliffed coast and from the land side by a Slavic burgwall.

Stone
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is a on the of . It lies about 22 metres away from the cliffs of Gellort on the Baltic Sea beach, one kilometre northwest of Cape Arkona.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Unukorno, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a scenic viewpoint.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Putgarten and Vitt.

Village
Photo: Lapplaender, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
is a municipality in the district, in , . The municipality is managed by the Amt of with its seat in .

Village
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The fishing village of lies on the German Baltic Sea island of , more precisely on the peninsula near Cape Arkona. The village is part of the municipality of .

Hamlet
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is a village in the municipality of on the peninsula on the German Baltic Sea island of . The village, comprising just a few houses, lies between the road from Altenkirchen to Arkona and the bay of . is situated 4 km southwest of Kap Arkona.

Kap Arkona

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
node 1516477886
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
2955585
Wiki­data ID
Q4110
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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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