Frisian Islands

[frizh-uhn ahy-luhndz, free-zhuhn]

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.

Frisian Islands

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

With the exception of Wangeroog, which belongs to the grand duchy of Oldenburg, the East Frisian Islands belong to Prussia.

From Project Gutenberg

Rene Loven’s regularly changing menu makes references to every corner of the Netherlands, from the notable gastronomic city of Maastricht in the southwest to the beautiful but culinarily austere Frisian Islands in the north.

From New York Times