The Nordperd ''(Perd = Slavic for protrusion or prominence)'' is a

cape A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck. History Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. Th ...

on the German

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island of

Rügen Rügen (; la, Rugia, ) is Germany's largest island. It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The "gateway" to Rügen island is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, where ...

. It is part of the

Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve The Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve (german: Biosphärenreservat Südost-Rügen) is a biosphere reserve in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which covers the southeastern part of the island of Rügen (including Granitz and Mönch ...

and the Mönchgut Nature Reserve. The cape forms the eastern point of the island of Rügen and the district of

Vorpommern-Rügen Vorpommern-Rügen is a district in the north of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Baltic Sea and the districts Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Rostock. The district seat is ...

. The roughly long headland has the shape of an isosceles triangle, which ends in a roughly high wooded cliff at its tip. The Nordperd has been protected by

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measures and is thus relatively unaffected by the normal active processes of a

graded shoreline A graded shoreline is a stage in the cycle of coastal development characterised by a flat and straight coastline. It is formed under the influence of wind and water from the original bays, islands, peninsulas and promontories. Sand and gravel is ...

. The Nordperd section of the Mönchgut Nature Reserve has an area of . Its terrain typically consists of dry grasslands, sycamore-ash woods on the cliff slopes and beachesBiotope sheet ''Aktives Kliff nördlich NSG "Nordperd"'' (pdf)
/ref> and shallow waterbodies. The northern section of beach, with a spa promenade at the Baltic Sea coastal resort Göhren, is separated by Cape Nordperd from the beach at Göhren running southwards. Between Göhren Pier and the Nordperd lies the Buskam, the largest

glacial erratic A glacial erratic is glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from the Latin word ' ("to wander"), are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundre ...

in North Germany, which projects about above the sea. The counterpart to the Nordperd is the ''Südperd'', the southeast tip of Rügen in the municipality of Thiessow. Between the Nordperd and the Südperd, away, are the flat sandy beaches of the

Mönchgut Mönchgut (''Monk's Estates'' in German) is a peninsula of 29.44 square kilometers with 6600 inhabitants in the southeast of Rügen island in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It lies just between the Greifswalder Bodden and the rest of ...

peninsula, interrupted by the -high cliff at . Nordperd und Buskam.jpg, Cape Nordperd seen from Göhren Pier. Left of the cape is the Buskam Nordperd, Rügen.jpg, View from the Nordperd

External links

Nordperd on the website of the municipality of Göhren

Footnotes

{{Coord, 54.340712, N, 13.764865, E, type:landmark_region:DE-MV, display=title, format=dms Headlands of Germany Geography of Rügen Göhren, Rügen Mönchgut Landforms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania