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Rügen

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[roo-guhn, ry-guhn] / ˈru gən, ˈrü gən /

noun

  1. an island in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, off the NE coast, in the Baltic Sea. 358 sq. mi. (926 sq. km).


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Dr. Elias Rugen, Research Fellow at Southampton who has worked on the Garvellach Islands for the past five years, said: "These deposits are some of the best-preserved Snowball Earth rocks anywhere in the world. Through them, you're able to read the climate history of a frozen planet, in this case one year at a time."

From Science Daily

In its latest update on Saturday afternoon, German maritime authorities said the towing convoy around the tanker was headed to Sassnitz, a town on the island of Rügen.

From BBC

German maritime authorities said the oil tanker was drifting at a low speed in the coastal waters of the Baltic Sea, north of the German island of Rügen.

From BBC

The breakthrough was made by Prof Shield’s PhD student, Elias Rugen, whose results have been published in the Journal of the Geological Society of London.

From BBC

"The majority of our simulated flooding areas are located in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, with the hotspots in the lagoons of Fischland-Darß-Zingst, Rügen, Usedom and the Peene estuary. In Schleswig-Holstein, the Flensburg Fjord, Eckernförde Bay, Fehmarn, Travemünde and Lübeck are particularly affected," says first author Dr Joshua Kiesel, postdoctoral researcher in the Coastal Risks and Sea Level Rise working group at the Institute of Geography at Kiel University.

From Science Daily