Eiderstedt
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|Lighthouse in Westerhever thumb|right|250px|View of a marshland thumb|right|250px|View of a salt marsh Eiderstedt (, ; ; North Frisian: Ääderstää) is a peninsula in the district of Nordfriesland in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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thumb|right|250px|Lighthouse in Westerhever thumb|right|250px|View of a marshland thumb|right|250px|View of a salt marsh Eiderstedt (, ; ; North Frisian: Ääderstää) is a peninsula in the district of Nordfriesland in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
==Overview== It is approximately 30 km in length and 15 km in width and has been created through diking (polders) from three islands: Eiderstedt around Tönning, Utholm around Tating, and Evershop around Garding. The diking started around the year 1000 AD.