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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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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

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

I guess Helgoland fits that description right enough.

From Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)

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