Helgoland

American  

[hel-goh-lahnt] / ˈhɛl goʊˌlɑnt /

noun

1. a German island in the North Sea. ¼ sq. mi. (0.6 sq. km).

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Helgoland British  

/ ˈhɛlɡolant /

noun

1. the German name for Heligoland

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Example Sentences

Zombie cells represent a novel phenomenon observed not only in pure SAR11 cultures but also in samples collected off Helgoland.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2024

But Helgoland played little role in the war until it was heavily bombed by Britain in 1945 and Germany evacuated the roughly 2,000 islanders to the mainland.

From National Geographic • Jan. 17, 2024

In fall 2021, they studied common redstart, chaffinch and dunnock on Helgoland, an island off the German coast along the North Sea that is a popular stopover for birds on the move each autumn.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023

At the Met “Strasse auf Helgoland II” holds its own in a gallery lined with Cubist works by the likes of Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger, artists to whom it is clearly indebted.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2011

Early in February, 1916, it was established that 70,000 naval reservists had been gathered at Kiel and Helgoland ready for duty on auxiliary vessels and cruisers of newly-formed squadrons.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan