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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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.
Baltiysk Rear lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Patsanenok, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baltiysk Rear lighthouse is situated 3½ km west of Ship graveyard.
Baltiysk railway station
Railway station
Baltiysk railway station is situated 3½ km west of Ship graveyard.
Citadelle Pillau
Castle
Citadelle Pillau is a castle, which is situated 4 km west of Ship graveyard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baltiysk.
Baltiysk
Town
Photo: Елена Николаевна Р, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baltiysk is a seaport town and the administrative center of Baltiysky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the northern part of the Vistula Spit, on the shore of the Strait of Baltiysk separating the Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay. Baltiysk is situated 3½ km west of Ship graveyard.
Ship graveyard
- Categories: vehicle graveyard and historic site
- Location: Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
54.63901° or 54° 38′ 20″ northLongitude
19.94925° or 19° 56′ 57″ eastOpen location code
9F6XJWQX+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 5777723353OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q331625
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Ship graveyard” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقبرة سفن”
- 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”
- 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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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sevastopol’skaya Gavan Entrance N side and Sevastopol’skaya Gavan Entrance S side.
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