By what collective name are the North Sea islands of Hauptinsel and Dune better known?
"have formed the Frisian Islands. In the micro tidal area, (a tidal range of up to , such as on the Dutch or Danish coasts, barrier beaches with dunes are formed. In the mesotidal area (a tidal range of between ), barrier islands are formed; in the macrotidal area (above tidal range), intertidal deposits raise the spring tide range . A soft rock coast is formed in the meso-macro tidal areas located in the southern North Sea. These soft rock coastal bedrock plains are interspersed with soft rock (shale and sandstone) cliffs. The small, historically strategic island of Heligoland was"
"Düne Düne (Danish: ""Dynen"", North Frisian: ""de Halem"") is one of two islands in the German North Sea Coast Area that belong to the Archipelago of Heligoland, the other being Heligoland proper. The small island Düne is part of the German State Schleswig-Holstein. Situated 1 mile to the east of the main island Heligoland, Düne is part of the natural landscape ""Helgoländer Felssockel"" [Heligoland rock core]. The island measures 0.78 mile in length and 0.53 mile in width. Until the 17th century, Düne was connected to Heligoland. On New Year's Eve 1721 a big storm surge separated the dunes from"
"Halem"") to the east. ""Heligoland"" generally refers to the former island. Düne is somewhat smaller at , lower, and surrounded by sand beaches. It is not permanently inhabited, but is today the location of Heligoland's airport. The main island is commonly divided into the ""Unterland"" (""Lower Land"", Heligolandic: ""deät Deelerlun"") at sea level (to the right on the photograph, where the harbour is located), the ""Oberland"" (""Upper Land"", Heligolandic: ""deät Boperlun"") consisting of the plateau visible in the photographs and the ""Mittelland"" (""Middle Land"") between them on one side of the island. The ""Mittelland"" came into being in 1947 as"
"Uthlande Uthlande, Utlande (Low German or Old Danish: ""The outer lands"", in Danish also: ""Friselagen"") is a term for the islands, halligen and marshes off the mainland of North Frisia in the Southwest Jutland, modern Nordfriesland district, Germany. The name was first recorded in a 12th-century document. At the time, the islands differed considerably from the mainland regarding both their social constitution and political status. Today parts of the former Uthlande are submerged in the Wadden Sea — especially large parts of the island Strand — or have themselves become a part of the mainland by the construction of dikes"
"Heligoland. Therefore, the island that arose was called Düne ""(English: Dune)"". In 1935 the size of the island was . In 1940 the Nazi government increased the size of the island to . This increase was for military use. An airfield was built that is still used today. The Heligoland Airport has three runways, of which the longest is . Düne Düne (Danish: ""Dynen"", North Frisian: ""de Halem"") is one of two islands in the German North Sea Coast Area that belong to the Archipelago of Heligoland, the other being Heligoland proper. The small island Düne is part of the"
"of Dune"" novels that take place eight decades after the end of the Butlerian Jihad, Josef Venport, the director of Venport Holdings (Venhold), the largest foldspace transportation company in the universe and the only company utilizing Navigators, forms Combined Mercantiles to mine spice on Arrakis. While ostensibly an independent company, it's an open secret that Combined Mercantiles works for Venhold. Presumably, the company eventually evolves into CHOAM. The Fish Speakers are the all-female army of the God Emperor Leto II Atreides in Frank Herbert's science fiction ""Dune"" universe, featured primarily in ""God Emperor of Dune"" (1981). Named so because ""the"
"Duhnen Duhnen (toponym derived from dunes) is a seaside resort (""Seebad"" ) along the North Sea, from the centre of Cuxhaven city, Lower Saxony, Germany. Duhnen is located northwest of Berlin. In 1935 Duhnen was incorporated into the city Cuxhaven, more than 100 years after the city had been established. Visitors to Hamburg's nearby island of Neuwerk commonly travel through Duhnen. It was at one time a remote fishing and farming village, but today is one of the tourist centres of Cuxland. Most of the homes in the area are used as cottages and camping sites. The main beach, known"
"Halligen The Halligen (German) or the halliger (Danish, singular Hallig) are small islands without protective dikes. There are ten German halligen in the North Frisian Islands on Schleswig-Holstein's Wadden Sea-North Sea coast in the district of Nordfriesland and one hallig at the west coast of Denmark (Danish Wadden Sea Islands). The name comes from a Celtic word ""hal"", meaning ""salt"", a reference to the low-lying land in the region which is often flooded over with saltwater by the tides. A greater number of Halligen existed in the Middle Ages than in the 21st century. The very existence of the Halligen"
"is currently the subject of a legal dispute between him and Burhoff. Dune (band) Dune is a German electronic group known for songs such as ""Hardcore Vibes"", ""Are You Ready to Fly?"" and ""Rainbow to the Stars"". The group was founded in 1995 by disc jockey Oliver Froning and producers Jens Oettrich and Bernd Burhoff (alias Plutone). The band's name was inspired by the science fiction film Dune, based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. They released ""Hardcore Vibes"", a largely instrumental track containing spoken words by Froning's niece, and a cover version of Rozalla's song ""Are You"
"Dune (band) Dune is a German electronic group known for songs such as ""Hardcore Vibes"", ""Are You Ready to Fly?"" and ""Rainbow to the Stars"". The group was founded in 1995 by disc jockey Oliver Froning and producers Jens Oettrich and Bernd Burhoff (alias Plutone). The band's name was inspired by the science fiction film Dune, based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. They released ""Hardcore Vibes"", a largely instrumental track containing spoken words by Froning's niece, and a cover version of Rozalla's song ""Are You Ready to Fly"" as their first two singles, followed in mid-1995 by"
"and reinforced with a variety of artillery, coastal artillery, and assault engineer detachments. The islands of Saaremaa (German: Ösel), Hiiumaa (German: Dago) and Muhu (German: Moon) are the largest islands in the archipelago off the Northwest Estonian coast. They dominate the sea lanes to Helsinki, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Tallinn (German: Reval) as well as the bay of Riga. They are almost completely flat, the highest point rising to about 68 m above sea level. Most of the islands are covered in woods, marshes and fields also dominate the landscape. Much of the surrounding area of the Baltic Sea is shallow,"
"modern Dutch and German ""heilig"", ""holy""). In the course of the centuries several alternative theories have been proposed, explaining the name from a Danish king Heligo or from the Frisian word ""hallig"", meaning ""salt marsh island"". In this sense, the 1911 ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" suggests an etymology of """"Hallaglun"", or ""Halligland"", i.e. 'land of banks, which cover and uncover. Traditional economic activities included fishing, hunting birds and seals, wrecking and—very important for many overseas powers—piloting overseas ships into the harbours of Hanseatic League cities such as Bremen and Hamburg. Moreover, in some periods Heligoland was an excellent base point for huge"
"very popular as a tourist destination because of its resort architecture, the diverse landscape and its long, sandy beaches. Rügen, together with the Danish island of Møn on the far side of Rügen in the Baltic Sea and the area around Dover, England, once belonged to a large chalk plateau, which had been pushed by tectonic movements to the earth's surface. The vast majority of this land mass has disappeared as a result of erosion and faulting, leaving the two islands with their characteristic white chalk cliffs. The main body of the island, known as Muttland, is surrounded by several"
"Hiddensee Hiddensee is a car-free island in the Baltic Sea, located west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, on the German coast. The island has about 1,300 inhabitants. It was a holiday destination for East German tourists during German Democratic Republic (GDR) times, and continues to attract tourists today. It is the location of the University of Greifswald's ornithological station. Gerhart Hauptmann and Walter Felsenstein are buried there. The name ""Hedinsey"" surfaces as early as the ""Prose Edda"" and the ""Gesta Danorum"" written by Saxo Grammaticus and means ""Island of Hedin"". The legendary Norwegian king, Hedin, was supposed to have fought"
"are known locally as ""tuktu"" which is understood across the circumpolar world. Conversely, eider ducks are called ""kingalik"" which means, simply, ""big-nose"". In recent decades, the local Inuvialuit have seen the reduction in average winter sea-ice thickness from roughly in the early 1960s to about even in the dead of winter today. There is also a preponderance of new species from flies to wasps, and new birds arriving that have never been seen before; grizzlies roam where they were once that most rare curiosity. Dolphin and Union Strait Dolphin and Union Strait lies in both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut,"
"form larger ones. Langeneß (or Langeness) includes a former island by that same name, and two others that were called Nordmarsch and Butwehl. Dwellings and commercial buildings are built upon metre-high, man-made mounds, called ""Warften"" in German or ""Værft"" in Danish, to guard against storm tides. Some Halligen also have overflow dikes. Not very many people live on the Halligen. Their livelihoods are mainly based on tourism, coastal protection, and agriculture. This last activity mainly involves raising cattle in the fertile, often flooded, salt meadows. The Halligen are to be found in the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer National Park. The commercially developed"
"the islands as bargaining chips in negotiations with the United Kingdom over the status of two other islands: the Arctic Jan Mayen and the Antarctic Bouvet Island. On 11 November 1930, Norway recognized Canadian sovereignty over the Sverdrup Islands. On 19 November 1930, the UK recognized Norwegian sovereignty over Jan Mayen. The main islands of the group are Axel Heiberg Island, Ellef Ringnes Island, Amund Ringnes Island, Cornwall Island, Graham Island, Meighen Island, King Christian Island, Stor Island, and the archipelago also includes a number of smaller islands in the surrounding waters. The only inhabited place was Isachsen, a formerly"
"Buise Buise was one of the East Frisian Islands off the North Sea coast of Germany that was almost entirely engulfed by the sea in the second half of the 17th century. The only remaining part is the eastern end, known today as the island of Norderney. Buise itself was formed by the breakup of a bigger island. Two possible origins are mentioned: the breakup of the island Burchana in the flood of 1219, and the breakup of the island Bant in 1170, which also formed Juist, Borkum and Memmert. Buise broke up in two parts in 1362. The eastern"
"part was called Osterende initially, and later ""Norder neye Oog"" (Nordens New Island), and today is the island Norderney. The western part disappeared slowly over the ages as a result of erosion, but sources do not agree on the exact date of the disappearance of Buise (the St. Peter's Flood of 1651 or 1690). Buise Buise was one of the East Frisian Islands off the North Sea coast of Germany that was almost entirely engulfed by the sea in the second half of the 17th century. The only remaining part is the eastern end, known today as the island of"
"core, which becomes apparent in the form of the Red Cliff of Wenningstedt. The geestland facing the Wadden Sea gradually turns into fertile marshland around Sylt-Ost. Sylt has only been an island since the ""Grote Mandrenke"" flood of 1362. The so-called ""Uwe-Düne"" (Uwe Dune) is the island's highest elevation with above sea level. The island in its current form has only existed for about 400 years. Like the mainland geestland, it was formed of moraines from the older ice ages, thus being made up of a till core, which is now apparent in the island's west and centre by the"
"the Habomai islets, which has led to the ongoing Kuril Islands dispute. The disputed islands are known in Japan as the country's ""Northern Territories"". In 2018 Russo-Japanese talks on reunification of islands with Japan resumed The name ""Kuril"" originates from the autonym of the aboriginal Ainu, the islands' original inhabitants: ""kur"", meaning man. It may also be related to names for other islands that have traditionally been inhabited by the Ainu people, such as ""Kuyi"" or ""Kuye"" for Sakhalin and ""Kai"" for Hokkaidō. In Japanese, the Kuril Islands are known as the Chishima Islands (Kanji: , literally, ""Thousand Islands Archipelago""),"
"Iceland' for greater clarity. Following international consultation, these changes were introduced in 1956. In August 1984, the areas in the North Sea were again coordinated with those of neighbouring countries, introducing North Utsire and South Utsire, and reducing Viking in size. Finisterre was renamed FitzRoy in 2002, to avoid confusion with the smaller sea area of the same name used in the marine forecasts produced by the French and Spanish meteorological offices. Some names still differ; for example, the Dutch KNMI names the area equivalent to Forties after the Fladen bank, while Météo-France calls the English Channel sea areas Dover,"
"inscribed in 1999. The other islands in the group are classified as north or south of the Mainland. Exceptions are the remote islets of Sule Skerry and Sule Stack, which lie west of the archipelago, but form part of Orkney for local government purposes. In island names, the suffix ""a"" or ""ay"" represents the Norse ""ey"", meaning ""island"". Those described as ""holms"" are very small. The northern group of islands is the most extensive and consists of a large number of moderately sized islands, linked to the Mainland by ferries and by air services. Farming, fishing and tourism are the"
"separate list of all inhabited islands of the west coast. The three placenames ""Gaestaenacka"", ""Hwaelae major"" and ""Hwaelae minor"" that are mentioned there cannot be found and confirmed today. A common assumption that these place lay west off Strand and were destroyed in 14th century storm surges is wrong though. They are in fact faulty transcriptions by a scribe who tried to translate the names of ""DeStrand"", ""Eydaerstath"" and ""Hewerschop"" into Latin language. In 2002 the association Regionale Partnerschaft Uthlande e.V. was established which aims to promote the ""Region Uthlande"" that comprises the islands and halligen of Nordfriesland. Uthlande Uthlande,"
"features nature reserves, castles, lakes and historic villages. Points of interest include: Usedom Usedom ( , ) is a Baltic Sea island in Pomerania, divided since 1945 between Germany and Poland. It is the second biggest Pomeranian island after Rügen. It is situated north of the Szczecin Lagoon (Polish: ""Zalew Szczeciński""; German: ""Stettiner Haff"") estuary of the River Oder. About 80% of the island belongs to the German district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The eastern part and the largest city on the island, Świnoujście (German: ""Swinemünde""), are part of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. The island's total"
"North Isles The North Isles are the northern islands of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The main islands in the group are Yell, Unst and Fetlar. Sometimes the islands in Yell Sound are included in this group. They are a significant group, since Yell and Unst are the second and third largest islands in the archipelago, and also the third and fourth most populous (Whalsay, which is not in the group, is the second most populous). Combined, their total land area is far larger than the rest of the Shetland Islands (excluding Mainland) combined. The group also contains the most northerly"
"beaches and coves. There are a total of 74 islands and islets among all the groups in the Whitsundays. The most notable islands in the main Whitsunday group are named Dent, Hamilton, Hayman, Hook and Whitsunday which features the white sands of Whitehaven Beach. The most notable island in the Lindeman group is its namesake Lindeman Island. The most notable islands in the Molle group are Daydream Island (formerly West Molle Island), Long Island and South Molle Island. Some of the islands in the Northern group are Armit, Gloucester and Saddleback. Listed below are islands of The Whitsundays, divided by"
"North Jutlandic Island The North Jutlandic Island (), Vendsyssel-Thy, or simply Jutland north of the Limfjord (""Jylland nord for Limfjorden"") are lesser-used names for the northernmost part of Denmark and of Jutland. It is more common to refer to the three traditional districts Vendsyssel, Hanherred and Thy. The area was not surrounded by water until a storm in February 1825, which caused a connection between the North Sea and the fjord Limfjorden. Hence it is traditionally regarded as a part of Jutland rather than an island. Geographically, it is the second largest island of Denmark after Zealand (excluding Greenland) with"
"Dove Bay Dove Bay () is a bay in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area. The bay is said to have been the legendary ""Breidifjòrdr"" of the Sagas of Icelanders. It was named ""Dove Bai"" by the Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey after German physicist and meteorologist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–79). Dove Bay is a large bay located between Germania Land to the north, a complex cluster of coastal islands to the west, Store Koldewey to the east and Adolf S. Jensen Land to the southwest."
"Denmark–Norway Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: ""Danmark–Norge""), also known as the Dano-Norwegian Realm, the Oldenburg Monarchy or the Oldenburg realms, was an early modern multi-national and multi-lingual real union consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including Norwegian overseas possessions the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, et cetera), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein. The state also claimed sovereignty over two historical peoples: Wends and Goths. Denmark–Norway also had several colonies, namely the Danish Gold Coast, the Nicobar Islands, Serampore, Tharangambadi, and the Danish West Indies. The state's inhabitants were mainly Danes, Norwegians, and Germans, and"
"Lutz Seiler's bestselling 2014 novel, ""Kruso"", is set on Hiddensee at the end of the DDR period (Suhrkamp ; published in English by Scribe, ). Tutti in Hans Fallada's novel Iron Gustav inherits a property on Hiddensee. Hiddensee Hiddensee is a car-free island in the Baltic Sea, located west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, on the German coast. The island has about 1,300 inhabitants. It was a holiday destination for East German tourists during German Democratic Republic (GDR) times, and continues to attract tourists today. It is the location of the University of Greifswald's ornithological station. Gerhart Hauptmann and Walter"
"lives. The storm tide broke through the dunes of the islands Juist and Langeoog and split Juist in half. Only in 1932 would the two halves of Juist be reunited. The western half of the island of Buise disappeared, leaving only the eastern half, now known as Norderney. According to some sources, however, the western half of Buise did not disappear until 1690. The foundations of Juist's church were undermined by the floodwaters, causing the church to collapse in 1662. The coastal towns of Dornumersiel, Accumersiel, and Altensiel were devastated by the storm tide. The floodwaters reached the church mound"
"Dominium maris septentrionalis The dominium maris septentrionalis (""Northern Seas dominion"") were the western and northern maritime waters claimed by Denmark–Norway in the Early Modern era. Constituting the western and northern part of the Danish ""kongens strømme"" (Royal waters), the ""dominium maris septentrionalis"" stretched from the coasts of Greenland in the west to the Jutland peninsula in the southeast and to Norway's North Cape in the northeast, thus including the respective parts of the North Sea and the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. The claim to the ""dominium maris septentrionalis"" as opposed to claiming sovereignty only in coastal waters dates back to"