Of the 300,000 t of chemical munitions manufactured in Germany up to 1945, about 40,000 t were dumped in the Baltic Sea by order of the Allies. The IMS (Internet Map Service) indicates the locations of dumped warfare agents and shows the transport routes (former save water way) to the dumping areas. Numerous witnesses reported that chemical munitions where already dumped while ships where en route. The information in this IMS is based on a report by a Federal/Länder Government Working Group "Chemical Munitions in the Baltic Sea" published by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in 1993. The report is out of print.

Of the 300,000 t of chemical munitions manufactured in Germany up to 1945, about 40,000 t were dumped in the Baltic Sea by order of the Allies. The IMS (Internet Map Service) indicates the locations of dumped warfare agents and shows the transport routes (former save water way) to the dumping areas. Numerous witnesses reported that chemical munitions where already dumped while ships where en route. The information in this IMS is based on a report by a Federal/Länder Government Working Group "Chemical Munitions in the Baltic Sea" published by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in 1993. The report is out of print.

The record includes global land areas and coastal lines. It is based on the freely available data base GSHHS (A Global Self-consistent, hierarchical, high-resolution Shoreline Database) from Wessel and Smith. GSHHS is a high-resolution record of coastal paths, by merging two data sets from the "public domain". The original records were extensive edited by the GSHHS originators, and are now internally consistent and free of maverick points and intersecting lines. The coast lines are completely closed to polygons. According to the original data set are 5 stages of resolution made available: crude, low, medium, high, and full resolution. In the German coastal area, the coastal courses of the highest level of resolution are exchanced through accurate ECDIS ENC data of the BSH.

Of the 300,000 t of chemical munitions manufactured in Germany up to 1945, about 40,000 t were dumped in the Baltic Sea by order of the Allies. In co-operation with the Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (Baltic Sea Research Institute) and the German Federal Ministry of Defence, the Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie carried out a magnetic anomaly-detection and hydroacoustic research programme in the German part of the transport routes to the dumping area from 1994 to 1997. About 5,600 nautical miles of survey lines were covered on a dense and systematic profile net. This IMS (Internet Map Service) shows the results of the survey programme.