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

In the Frisian Islands to the north, the flood crest went as high as 30 feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

And, in addition, there are those Frisian Islands, and East Friesland, and that dangerous wedge that Germany drives into Holland along the Rhine.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various