The Pomeranian Lakeland (; ) is a lakeland in

Farther Pomerania Farther Pomerania, Hinder Pomerania, Rear Pomerania or Eastern Pomerania (; ), is a subregion of the historic region of Pomerania in north-western Poland, mostly within the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, while its easternmost parts are within the Po ...

. It lies today in the east of the

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

Voivodeship of West Pomerania in northwest

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. The lakeland is located in the extreme foothills of the

Baltic Uplands The Baltic UplandsDickinson, Robert E. (1964). ''Germany: A regional and economic geography'' (2nd ed.). London: Methuen, p. 614. . ( or ''Nördlicher Landrücken'') is a chain of morainic hills about wide that border the southern Baltic Sea from ...

and consists of a multitude of lakes. It is of

ice age An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and g ...

origin and lies embedded between low

morainic A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice she ...

hills. The lake plateau is very similar to the regions of the Masurian and Mecklenburg lake districts and

Holstein Switzerland Holstein Switzerland () is a hilly area with a patchwork of lakes and forest in Schleswig Holstein, Germany, reminiscent of Swiss landscape. Its highest point is the Bungsberg (168 metres above sea level).Carl Ingwer Johannsen & Eckardt Op ...

. Its largest lake is

Lake Drawsko Drawsko () is a lake located nearby the town of Czaplinek in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It is 1,956 hectares large, 12,6 km long and 3.9 km wide. Maximum depth is 79.7 m, making it the second deepest lake in Poland (after ...

(German: ''Dratzigsee''; 18.66 km²), through which the

Drawa The Drawa () is a river and popular aquatic trail in Poland, 192 km long. The surface of its catchment area amounts to 3291 km2. The Drawa begins its course at Lake Krzywe in Drawsko Landscape Park and ends it in Noteć below Krzyż ...

flows, the most important river in the region. Its chief settlements are

Czaplinek Czaplinek (; ) is a town in Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 7,012 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is situated between Drawsko and Czaplino lakes. The former name of ''Tempelburg'' refers to the Templar Knights, w ...

Szczecinek Szczecinek (; ) is a historic city in Middle Pomerania, northwestern Poland, capital of Szczecinek County in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, with a population of more than 40,000 (2011). The town's total area is . The turbulent history of Szcze ...

and Połczyn Zdrój. Because the Pomeranian Lakeland is far less known than the Masurian Lake District, it is unspoiled and undeveloped from a tourist's perspective.

Literature

* Wilhelm Halbfass: ''Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pommerschen Seen.'' Mit 6 Karten. Perthes, Gotha 1901 (''Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt.'' Ergänzungsheft 136, )
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