The Udarser Wiek is a bay on Germany's

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

coast, covering an area of about 8 km², between the islands of

Rügen Rügen (; Rani: ''Rȯjana'', ''Rāna''; , ) 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 ci ...

in the north and

Ummanz Ummanz is an island in the Baltic Sea, off the west coast of the island of Rügen, and belongs, like the latter, to the county of Vorpommern-Rügen in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Ummanz is around 20 square kilometres in ...

in the south. In the west, the ''bodden'' transitions into the

Schaproder Bodden The Schaproder Bodden is a ''bodden'' on the Baltic Sea coast between the island of Hiddensee in the west and the islands of Rügen and Ummanz in the east. To the north the Schaproder Bodden is linked to the Vitter Bodden by the so-called ''Trog ...

and in the southeast to the ''Gahlitz'' in the lake of Koselower See. At the northeast end of the bay lies the island of

Öhe Öhe is an island in the Baltic Sea off the ferry port of Schaprode on Rügen Rügen (; Rani: ''Rȯjana'', ''Rāna''; , ) is Germany's largest island. It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Me ...

. The Udarser Wiek is very shallow (generally below 1.5 metres deep). The bay was named after the village of Udars in the municipality of

Schaprode Schaprode is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the n ...

on Rügen. The ''

bodden Bodden are briny bodies of water often forming lagoons, along the southwestern shores of the Baltic Sea, primarily in Germany's state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. These lagoons can be found especially around the island of Rügen, Usedom and ...

'' is part of the

Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park The Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park
at www.naturefund.de. Ac ...

and it belongs to the

West Rügen Bodden The West Rügen Bodden ( or ''Rügenschen Außenboddenkette'') are a string of lagoons and embayments, known as ''bodden'', in Western Pomerania on the Baltic Sea coast. They lie in the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park west and southwest ...

Literature

* Harald Krause: ''Wiek und Wikinger – Entstehung und Entwicklung der Schifffahrt und maritimer Begriffe der Seefahrer im erweiterten Ostseeraum''. In: '' Stier und Greif. Blätter zur Kultur- und Landesgeschichte in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern''. 19th year, Schwerin 2009, pp. 10–21. Table: Die deutschen Wieken. {{Rügen-geo-stub Geography of Rügen West Rügen Bodden