Kachelotplate
Sign in to saveThe Kachelotplate () is a sandbar in the North Sea. It lies near the German coast, west of the island of Juist. Since 2003, enough stays above high tide that it can be called an island. Grass and dunes are settling there.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Kachelotplate
- Islands.image_name
- Aerial image of Kachelotplate (view from the southwest).jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Aerial view of Kachelotplate from the southwest with Juist in the background
- Islands.map_image
- Karte Insel Juist.png
- Islands.map_caption
- Map of the Kachelotplate west of Juist
- Islands.location
- North Sea
- Islands.archipelago
- East Frisian Islands
- Islands.length_km
- 3
- Islands.width_km
- 1
- Islands.area_km2
- 1.72
- Islands.elevation_m
- 2.5
- Islands.population
- 0
- Islands.country
- Germany
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- East Frisian Islands
- Country
- Germany
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 1.72
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- North Sea
- Image
- Aerial image of Kachelotplate (view from the southwest).jpg
- Width
- 1
- Length
- 3
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- Commons category
- Kachelotplate
- located in protected area
- Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park
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Encyclopedic overview
The Kachelotplate () is a sandbar in the North Sea. It lies near the German coast, west of the island of Juist. Since 2003, enough stays above high tide that it can be called an island. Grass and dunes are settling there.
The new island is 2.5 kilometres long and up to 1.3 kilometres wide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kachelotplate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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