Frisian Islands

American  

[frizh-uhn ahy-luhndz, free-zhuhn] / ˈfrɪʒ ən ˈaɪ ləndz, ˈfri ʒən /

plural noun

1. a chain of islands in the North Sea, extending along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark: includes groups belonging to the Netherlands West FrisiansWest Frisian Islands and to Germany East FrisiansEast Frisian Islands and a group divided between Germany and Denmark North FrisiansNorth Frisian Islands.

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Frisian Islands British  

plural noun

1. a chain of islands in the North Sea along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark: separated from the mainland by shallows

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Frisian Islands

The Coast Guard said the ship, which had just left the German port of Bremerhaven, was about 17 miles north of Ameland, one of the West Frisian Islands off the north coast of the Netherlands.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

She was raised in Oldenburg, near Bremen, and on Wangerooge, one of the Frisian Islands in the North Sea, where her father had obtained a remote church posting amid tensions with the Nazi authorities.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2019

Sustainable tourism blooms on Western Europe’s windswept Frisian Islands, shared by Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands and linked by the Wadden Sea, a biodiversity hot spot.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2019

Up over tiny, bleak Wangeroog, easternmost of Germany's crumbling chain of East Frisian Islands in the North Sea, one day last week shot a five-foot model rocket plane.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great minefield which was declared by our Government in the summer of 1917, the preparation of which was a gigantic undertaking, extended from the Frisian Islands to about latitude 56 degrees north.

From The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War by Knight, E. F. (Edward Frederick)