Helgoland
Americannoun
noun
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The ocean waters surrounding the German island of Helgoland provide an ideal setting to study spring algae blooms, a focus of research at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology since 2009.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
The British saw Helgoland as a bargaining chip to persuade neutral Denmark to ally against France, but it ended up ruling the island instead.
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
The information was flashed to Helgoland by the leading Zeppelin, which was hovering more than two miles in the air, commanding an immense area of the North Sea.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
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