Fehmarn Belt
Sign in to savestrait between Germany & Denmark
Key facts
- Type
- strait
- Basin countries
- Germany , Denmark
- Max length
- 25 km (16 mi)
- Min width
- 18.6 km (11.6 mi)
- Max depth
- 30 m (98 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of the ferry route.
Fehmarn Belt (German pronunciation) (Danish: Femern Bælt, former spelling Femer Bælt; Low German: Femernbelt) is a strait connecting the Bay of Kiel and the Bay of Mecklenburg in the western part of the Baltic Sea between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland. Ferries operated by Scandlines connect Puttgarden and Rødby on the two islands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fehmarn Belt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.