Esker
An esker, eskar, eschar, or os is a long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America.- Type: Sign
- Description: long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel
- Also known as: “asar”, “eschar”, “eskar”, “esker”, “os”, “osar”, “Prieschendorfer Os”, and “serpent kame”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tigerpark Dassow and Schloss Lütgenhof.
Schloss Lütgenhof
Manor estate
Hafenspeicher Dassow
Historic building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lütgenhof and Dassow.
Dassow
Town
Photo: Kresspahl, Public domain.Menzendorf
Village
Menzendorf is a municipality in the Nordwestmecklenburg district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Menzendorf is situated 4 km south of Esker.
Esker
- Categories: fluvioglacial landform, information, and tourism
- Location: Dassow, Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
53.88365° or 53° 53′ 1″ north
Longitude
10.99911° or 10° 59′ 57″ east
Open location code
9F5GVXMX+FJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=information
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Esker” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أصار”
- Arabic: “إسكير”
- Armenian: “Օզեր”
- Asturian: “Esker”
- Azerbaijani: “Ozlar”
- Basque: “Esker”
- Belarusian: “оз”
- Belarusian: “озы”
- Belarusian: “Озы”
- Bulgarian: “Ескер”
- Catalan: “Esker”
- Chinese: “蛇丘”
- Chinese: “蛇形丘”
- Cornish: “Esker”
- Czech: “esker”
- Czech: “Esker”
- Danish: “ås”
- Danish: “Ås”
- Danish: “bakkedrag”
- Danish: “tunnelås”
- Dutch: “esker”
- Dutch: “Esker”
- Dutch: “Smeltwaterrug”
- Esperanto: “Harju”
- Estonian: “oos”
- Estonian: “Oos”
- Estonian: “vallseljak”
- Finnish: “harju”
- Finnish: “Harju”
- Finnish: “pitkittäisharju”
- French: “esker”
- French: “Esker”
- French: “Ös”
- Galician: “Esker”
- Georgian: “ოზები”
- German: “Esker”
- German: “Os (Landschaft)”
- German: “Os”
- German: “Oser”
- Hebrew: “אסקר”
- Hindi: “एस्कर”
- Hungarian: “óz”
- Hungarian: “Óz”
- Icelandic: “Malarás”
- Irish: “eiscir”
- Irish: “Eiscir”
- Italian: “esker”
- Italian: “Esker”
- Japanese: “エスカー”
- Kazakh: “Éskerler”
- Kazakh: “Эскерлер”
- Kazakh: “ەسكەرلەر”
- Korean: “에스카”
- Korean: “에스커”
- Latin: “Crista glacialis”
- Latin: “Dorsum montis”
- Latvian: “Oss”
- Lithuanian: “ozas”
- Lithuanian: “Ozas”
- Macedonian: “ескер”
- Macedonian: “осар”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “esker”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rullesteinsås”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Esker”
- Norwegian: “Esker”
- Persian: “پشته یخرفتی”
- Persian: “پشته یخرفتی”
- Persian: “مارتپه”
- Polish: “Oz (geomorfologia)”
- Polish: “Oz”
- Polish: “Ozy”
- Portuguese: “esker”
- Portuguese: “Esker”
- Romanian: “Ösar”
- Russian: “оз”
- Russian: “озы”
- Russian: “Озы”
- Russian: “эзар”
- Russian: “эзары”
- Russian: “эскер”
- Serbian: “Esker”
- Slovenian: “esker”
- Slovenian: “Esker”
- Spanish: “Esker”
- Swedish: “ås”
- Swedish: “rullstensås”
- Swedish: “Rullstensås”
- Swedish: “rullstensåsar”
- Turkish: “Esker”
- Ukrainian: “Ескери, Ози”
- Ukrainian: “Ескери”
- Ukrainian: “ози”
- Võro: “Säländü”
- Welsh: “Esgair”
- Yue Chinese: “蛇形丘”
- “Säländü”
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