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Helgoland

American  
[hel-goh-lahnt] / ˈhɛl goʊˌlɑnt /

noun

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


Helgoland British  
/ ˈhɛlɡolant /

noun

  1. the German name for Heligoland

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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

Helgoland and Borkum were labor camps run by the Nazis’ civil and military engineering arm.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

The tiny island of Helgoland in Europe’s North Sea is today both a tourist idyll and the center of a booming offshore wind-turbine industry.

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

Presently from behind Helgoland came a number of German destroyers, followed by two cruisers; and the English submarines, with the two small destroyers, fled westwards, acting as a decoy.

From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by March, Francis Andrew