page_title: Amber Coast
hierarchical_section_title: Amber Coast
caption_attribution_description: English: Place where amber was digged up from the ground. Yantarny, Kaliningrad oblast, Russia. When the exploitation of this amber birthplace stopped, the remaining cavity became a lake. Baltic sea is visible behinde the dam, that separates it from the lake.
context_page_description: The Amber Coast is the name given to a coastal strip of the Baltic Sea in the northwest of Kaliningrad. In this area amber has been excavated since the mid-19th century and up to today in open-pit mining. Two deposits – Palmnikenskoe and Primorskoe, containing 80% of world amber reserves, were found near Yantarny on the Western coast of the Sambia Peninsula in 1948-1951’s.
context_section_description: The Amber Coast is the name given to a coastal strip of the Baltic Sea in the northwest of Kaliningrad (Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast, Sambia Peninsula, formerly northern East Prussia in Germany). In this area amber (Baltic amber) has been excavated since the mid-19th century and up to today in open-pit mining. Two deposits – Palmnikenskoe and Primorskoe, containing 80% of world amber reserves, were found near Yantarny on the Western coast of the Sambia Peninsula in 1948-1951’s.
caption: Open-pit mining near Jantarny (Sambia Peninsula, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
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