Ship graveyard

A ship graveyard, ship cemetery or breaking yard is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Monument
  • Description: location where scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate
  • Also known as: “boat cemetery”, “boat junkyard”, “ship cemetery”, “ship graveyard”, “ship junkyard”, and “Кладбище военных кораблей”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Baltiysk Rear lighthouse and Baltiysk railway station.

Lighthouse
Photo: Patsanenok, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 3½ km west of Ship graveyard.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is situated 3½ km west of Ship graveyard.

Castle
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a castle, which is situated 4 km west of Ship graveyard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baltiysk.

Town
Photo: Елена Николаевна Р, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, prior to 1946 known by its German name Pillau, is a seaport town and the administrative center of in , Russia, located on the northern part of the , on the shore of the Strait of separating the from Gdańsk Bay. is situated 3½ km west of Ship graveyard.

Ship graveyard

Latitude
54.63901° or 54° 38′ 20″ north
Longitude
19.94925° or 19° 56′ 57″ east
Open location code
9F6XJWQX+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5777723353
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Wiki­data ID
Q331625
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Ship graveyard” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقبرة سفن”
  • Breton: “bered bagoù”
  • Breton: “bered bigi”
  • Catalan: “cementiri de vaixells”
  • Chinese: “传播墓地”
  • Chinese: “傳播墓地”
  • Chinese: “船舶墓地”
  • Chinese: “船舶墳場”
  • Czech: “hřbitov lodí”
  • Czech: “lodní hřbitov”
  • Danish: “skibskirkegård”
  • Danish: “Skibskirkegård”
  • Danish: “Skibslosseplads”
  • Dutch: “scheepskerkhof”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝiptombejo”
  • French: “Cimetiere de bateaux”
  • French: “cimetière de bateaux”
  • French: “Cimetière de bateaux”
  • French: “Cimetière des bateaux”
  • German: “Kriegsschiffsfriedhof”
  • German: “Schiffsfriedhof”
  • Igbo: “Ebe a na-eli ozu ụgbọ mmiri”
  • Japanese: “船の墓場”
  • Russian: “Кладбище кораблей”
  • Slovenian: “ladijsko pokopališče”
  • Slovenian: “pokopališče čolnov”
  • Slovenian: “pokopališče ladij”
  • Spanish: “cementerio de barcos”
  • Spanish: “Cementerio de barcos”
  • Spanish: “cementerio de embarcaciones”
  • Swedish: “vrakkyrkogård”

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