page_title: Gellen
section_title: Topography
hierarchical_section_title: Gellen / Topography
caption_attribution_description: Die Bilder wurden von mir während eines einstündigen Rundflugs ab Flugplatz Güttin am 21. Mai 2011 aufgenommen. Die Bildbeschreibung steht im Dateinamen. Aufgenommen mit einer Nikon D5000 durch das Seitenfenster des Flugzeugs.
context_page_description: The Gellen or Gellen Peninsula is a spit at the southern end of the island of Hiddensee off the north German Baltic coast. Its southern part is protected as an important bird reserve and is part of protection zone I of the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park. It is therefore not accessible to the public.
  It consists of post-ice age sand depositions and is growing annually by a few metres to the south. The dredging of the shipping channel between the island of Bock and the Gellen prevents a graded shoreline from being formed, which would otherwise be typical of the eastern Baltic Sea area with its numerous spits.
context_section_description: The peninsula is a maximum of 500 metres wide and ca. 5 kilometres long, but only a few metres high. Its individual berms may be clearly seen. Topographically it may be divided into two areas:
  Altgellen (Neuendorf to Klimphores Bay)
  Neugellen (Klimphores Bay to the southern tip), formed from about 12th century. The southern part of the Neugellen is closed.
  Whilst the Neugellen grows southwards, sand is removed from Altgellen. South of the Gellen is an extensive wind-affected mudflat or Windwatt, the Vierendehlgrund, which is occasionally exposed. The growth of the Gellen has slowed down considerably since about 1990 and will eventually cease in the coming decades because it will come up against the shipping channel to the southwest.
  Place names on the Gellen from north to south:
  Points and headlands: Langer Barg, Klimphores/Klemmhuern Spit (Klimphoreshaken/Klemmhuernhaken), Langen Hasenwerderscher Ort, Kl. Ugel, Gr. Ugel
  Bays and inlets (Riegen): Schwarzer Peter, Klemmhuern/Klimphores Bay (Klimphoresbucht), Karkensee, Priestersee
  On the western shore of the Neugellen is a sea cliff up to four metres high, which unlike the Dornbusch has its origins in dune formation, not ice age depositions. On the Altgellen is a coastal defence wood of wind-resistant Scots Pine has been planted; further south there are also a few individual birches and other trees. Most of it is covered with dune grasses, poor grassland and heath, however.
caption: Southern tip in May 2011
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