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Image of the Week: Curonian Spit

12 May 2017
Image of the Week

On the image: Kaliningrad Region, Russia

The Curonian Spit is a narrow long sandy saber-shaped strip of land separating the freshwater Curonian Bay from the salty Baltic Sea. The length of the spit is 98 km, the width varies from 400 m to 3.8 km. Due to the unusual landscape and special microclimate on the Curonian Spit, there is amazing biological diversity. Here you can find sand dunes, and a variety of pine forests, and birch forests, and extensive fields of lichens. More than 70% of the territory of the spit is occupied by forests with about 600 species of arboreal, artisanal and grass vegetation. The fauna counts 296 species of terrestrial vertebrates.

The Curonian Spit National Park — one of the oldest national parks in Russia — was established in 1987 on the southern half of the spit.

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