The Nowe Warpno Lake (

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: ''Neuwarper See'', ''Warper See'';Johannes Hinz: ''Warper See''. In: Johannes Hinz: ''Pommern. Lexikon.'' Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1996, , p. 337. ) is a bay on the southern shore of the

Szczecin Lagoon Szczecin Lagoon (, ), also known as Oder Lagoon (), and Pomeranian Lagoon (), is a lagoon in the Oder estuary, shared by Germany and Poland. It is separated from the Pomeranian Bay of the Baltic Sea by the islands of Usedom and Wolin. The la ...

. It runs for about into the interior and has two narrow channels to the lagoon in the north that are each only wide and divided by a small island of reeds. The west and south shores of the bay belong to the district of

Vorpommern-Greifswald Vorpommern-Greifswald is a district in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Vorpommern-Rügen, the Baltic Sea, Poland (West Pomeranian Voiv ...

in the German federal state of

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...

. the east shore is part of the

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West Pomeranian Voivodeship West Pomeranian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals , and in 2021, it was inhabited by 1,682,003 people. It was established on 1 Janua ...

(

Police County __NOTOC__ Police County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, on the Polish-Germany, German border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the ...

). On the Neuwarper See lie the municipality of Altwarp and the village of in the municipality of Luckow, as well as the town of

Nowe Warpno Nowe Warpno (; ) is a historic town in northwestern Poland, within Police County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship West Pomeranian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest cit ...

(''Neuwarp'') and its districts – Podgrodzie (''Altstadt'') and Karszno (''Albrechtsdorf''). The island of Riether Werder, 0.83 km² in area, lies in the German part of the Neuwarper See and is, like the entire shore between Altwarp and Rieth a . The island of (''Kahleberg'') lies in Polish waters. Passenger

ferries A ferry is a boat or ship that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus. ...

run between Altwarp and Neuwarp all year round (6 trips each way from 10:00 to 17:30).

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{{Coord, 53, 42, 38, N, 14, 16, 28, E, type:waterbody_region:DE-MV/PL-ZP Bays of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Vorpommern-Greifswald Landforms of West Pomeranian Voivodeship Bays of Poland