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page 1Frisian Islands
Heligoland
Heligoland (; , ; Heligolandic Frisian: , , Mooring Frisian: , ) is a small archipelago in the North Sea, administratively part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The islands are located in the Heligoland Bight (part of the German Bight) in the southeastern corner of the North Sea and are the only German islands not in the vicinity of the mainland: they lie approximately by sea from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the River Elbe.
Wadden Sea
intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea (Netherlands, Germany and Denmark)
Frisian Islands
archipelago in the Wadden Sea
East Frisian Islands
chain of German islands in the North Sea
West Frisian Islands
chain of islands in the North Sea
North Frisian Islands
group of islands in the Wadden Sea
Neuwerk
Neuwerk (; ; Archaic English: New Werk or Newark) is a tidal island in the Wadden Sea ("Mudflat Sea") a marginal part of North Sea along the German coast. The population in 2023 was 21. Neuwerk is located northwest of Cuxhaven, between the Weser and Elbe estuaries. The distance to the centre of Hamburg is about .
Nigehörn
Nigehörn () is an uninhabited artificial island in the North Sea belonging to the German city of Hamburg.
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Scharhörn
Scharhörn () is an uninhabited island in the North Sea belonging to the city of Hamburg, Germany. The once most important daymark on the North Sea coast, the Scharhörnbake, was maintained here by the City of Hamburg from 1440 to 1979.
mudflat hiking
type of walking recreation
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Trischen
thumb|left|180px|The island of Trischen with the mouth of the river Elbe.
thumb|Trischen is still shown as Busch Sand on a 1906 map
Danish Wadden Sea Islands
island group
Tertius
sandban in the Heligoland Bight
Blauort
thumb|Map of Meldorf Bay with Blauort in the north; south of it lie Tertius (island)|Tertius and [[Trischen]]
thumb|Blauort looking roughly southwest. On the left a channel marker (Pricke) can be made out which marks the Norderpiep channel.
Blauort () is one of Germany's uninhabited North Sea sandy islets off the coast of Dithmarschen (near Büsum), and measures about 1,200 m from north to south and 500 metres from east to west. It is surrounded by the sandbank of Blauortsand, which is bounded to the north by the creek of the Wesselburener Loch and to the south by the Piep.
Langlütjen
thumb|Aerial view of Langlütjen I (2012)
thumb|The island Langlütjen II (2013)
Langlütjen () is the name of the two uninhabited artificial islands created in the 19th century, Langlütjen I and Langlütjen II, north off the coast of the district Wesermarsch in Lower Saxony, Germany. The islands are administered by the town of Nordenham. Their size is 16,000 and 17,000 square metres, respectively.
Großer Knechtsand
island