SÅ‚upsk Bank

54.91666666666716.75Koordinaten: 54 ° 55 '0 " N, 16 ° 45' 0" E The Stolpe Bank (Polish: Ławica Słupska ) is a shoal (sand bank) in the Baltic off the Polish coast, about 16 nautical miles north of Ustka, the former Stolpmünde. It is named after the river Stolpe (Polish: Słupia ) opening there in the Baltic Sea.

The Stolpe Bank extends in a generally east-west direction for a distance of about 24 nautical miles and up to 10 nautical miles wide. The water depth is generally 10 to 18 meters, in the north- west in some places only 8-9 meters. At the southeastern edge of the sea floor drops steeply down to 29-33 meters on while he gradually falls to the other edges. From the Stolpe Bank to the north, the trip-free threshold that separates the Bornholm Basin in the west of the stumbling channel and thus the Gotland Basin in the east extends.

The sandbar is within the exclusive economic zone of Poland. Although it consists mostly of sand, but also contains extensive gravel deposits, from which from 1985 to 2003 about 3 million m3 of gravel were promoted.

South of the Stolpe Bank runs the shipping route from Gdansk along the Pomeranian coast; there Steuben was sunk on 10 February 1945. North of the Stolpe Bank runs deeper waters; there, the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk on 30 January 1945.