Curonian Spit / Kuršiu nerija (Lithuania)
N 55° 18.054 E 021° 00.282
34U E 500298 N 6128276
Beautiful and interesting habitats of Curonian spit, connecting unusual dune landscape and coastal lines with pictoresque human settlements was inscripted into UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
Waymark Code: WMF0R7
Location: Lithuania
Date Posted: 08/03/2012
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Beautiful and interesting habitats of Curonian spit, connecting unusual dune landscape and coastal lines with pictoresque human settlements was inscripted into UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
The Curonian Spit (Lithuanian: Kuršiu nerija, Russian: Kurškaja kosa, German: Kurische Nehrung, Latvian: Kuršu kapas) is a 98 km long, thin, curved sand-dune spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea coast. Its southern portion lies within Russian Kaliningrad region, and its northern within southwestern Lithuania.
A spindling 98 km long strip of land locked in waters of the Baltic sea from West and the Curonian Lagoon form East is a beautiful creation of nature and people endeavor. The present landscape of the Curonian Spit was mostly formed by people trying to put a bridle on winds and sand. That`s why the Curonian Spit was admitted to be a National Park, what is more, it is an exceptional case of human and nature conjunction that was included into World Heritage List.
The Spit is called the pearl of the Baltic sea. Beautiful surroundings, variety of time spending and beautiful landscape of dunes, Baltic seaside and Curonian Lagoon compose an impression of admiring a real gemstone, that, according to UNESCO criteria "V", is an "outstanding example of traditional human settlement, land-use and sea-use which is representative of a culture and human interaction with the environment".