Fischland

Fischland, the most westerly section of the Fischland-Darss-Zingst Peninsula, is a morainic ridge up to 18 m/60ft in height, the steep seaward scarp of which, the Hohes Ufer (between the Baltic resorts of Wustrow and Ahrenshoop), has been battered for centuries by breakers and storm tides and is cut back every year by about half a meter (20 inches). The material broken off by the waves during all these centuries has been carried northeastward by the coastal current and deposited as fan-shaped dunes on Altdarss, with its 7 m/23ft high coastal cliffs; as ridges of sand and lines of dunes on Neudarss; as the Bernsteininsel (Amber Island) at the northern tip of Darss (Darsser Ort), which has been linked with the mainland only in recent times.