Beuchel is a tiny, uninhabited
island
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in the
Neuendorfer Wiek bay of 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 ...
, and is only a little over a hundred metres off Rügen. It measures roughly 400 by 150 metres, and has an area of 7
ha (approximately 17. acres). The kidney-shaped island is flat and treeless.
The island was declared a
nature reserve
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in 1940 to protect the birds brooding or resting there, and cannot be visited.
Uninhabited islands of Germany
Nature reserves in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Islands of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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