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The Wadden Sea (,, Low German: Wattensee or Waddenzee,, West Frisian: Waadsee ) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea.
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Wadden and Sea
The island of Neuwerk and two small neighbouring islands Scharhörn and Nigehörn, located in the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park, are also part of Hamburg.
The Danish Wadden Sea Islands and the German North Frisian Islands stretch along the southwest coast of Jutland in the German Bight.
* Rungholt – Wadden Sea in Germany, sunken during the " grote Mandraenke ", a storm surge in the North Sea on January 16, 1362
Relics of the city were being found in the Wadden Sea until the late 20th century, but shifting sediments have carried the last of these into the sea.
* March 31 – WWII: Commerce raiding, leaves the Wadden Sea for what will become the longest warship cruise of the war.
The French Navy lacked the necessary heavy weaponry to deal with these coastal defences, while the difficult topography of the Prussian coastline ( see the article Wadden Sea ) made a seaborne invasion of northern Germany impossible.
In the 20th century the majority of the Zuiderzee was closed off from the North Sea ( leaving the mouth of the inlet to become part of the Wadden Sea ) and the salt water inlet changed into a fresh water lake called the IJsselmeer ( IJssel Lake ) after the river that drains into it, and by means of drainage and polders, an area of some was reclaimed as land.
In 2009, the Dutch and German parts of the Wadden Sea were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
According to C. Michael Hogan, the Wadden Sea is one of the world's seas whose coastline has been most modified by humans, via systems of dikes and causeways on the mainland and low lying coastal islands.
The Wadden Sea stretches from Den Helder in the Netherlands in the southwest, past the great river estuaries of Germany to its northern boundary at Skallingen north of Esbjerg in Denmark along a total length of some 500 km and a total area of about 10, 000 km².
The islands in the Wadden Sea are called the Wadden Sea Islands or Frisian Islands, named after the Frisians.
The Danish Wadden Sea Islands have never been inhabited by Frisians.
The outlying German island of Heligoland, although ethnically one of the Frisian Islands, is not situated in the Wadden Sea.
The German part of the Wadden Sea was the setting for the 1903 Erskine Childers novel The Riddle of the Sands.
The islands are marked by dunes and wide, sandy beaches towards the North Sea and a low, tidal coast towards the Wadden Sea.
The Wadden Sea is famous for its rich flora and fauna, especially birds.
Each of three countries has designated Ramsar sites in the region ( see Wadden Sea National Parks for the protected areas within the German borders ).
Wadden and (,
Harlingen (, West Frisian: Harns ) is a municipality and a city in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland at the Wadden Sea.
Wadden and German
In June 2009, the Wadden Sea ( comprising the Dutch Wadden Sea Conservation Area and the German Wadden Sea National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) was placed on the World Heritage list by UNESCO.
Mudflat hiking ( Dutch: Wadlopen, German: Wattwandern ), i. e., walking on the sandy flats at low tide, has become popular in the Wadden Sea.
The German islands are in the traditional region of North Frisia and are part of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park and the Kreis ( district ) of Nordfriesland.
The Wadden Sea National Parks, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are located along the German coast of the North Sea.
* Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park ( German )
* Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park ( German )
* Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park ( German )
* Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park, tourism site ( German, English )
The Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park () is a national park in the Schleswig-Holstein area of the German Wadden Sea.
Together with the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park, the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park and those parts of Elbe estuary which are not nature reserves, it forms the German part of the Wadden Sea.
Together with other German and Dutch Wadden Sea areas it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 26 June 2009.
Under the classification of the natural regions of Germany the national park area belongs to the " Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea, Islands and Halligen " region within the Schleswig-Holstein Marshes, and to the major unit of the German Bight.
The Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park () is an exclave of the city state of Hamburg in North Germany and lies 12. 5 km off Cuxhaven in the estuary of the Elbe in the North Sea ( German Bight ).
Wadden and West
Vlieland is one of the West Frisian Islands, lying in the Wadden Sea.
The West Frisian Islands () are a chain of islands in the North Sea off the Dutch coast, along the edge of the Wadden Sea.
Wadden and Frisian
The North Frisian Islands are a group of islands in the Wadden Sea, a part of the North Sea, off the western coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Sometimes the North Frisian Islands include also the Danish Wadden Sea Islands on the western coast of Jutland, Denmark.
Vlieland, being the outermost of the Frisian barrier islands, sees it's climate the most moderated by the North-and Wadden Sea.
It is the largest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark.
* Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, comprising the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein and the North Frisian Islands
* Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park, comprising the northern coast of Lower Saxony and including the East Frisian Islands
The North Frisian Wadden Sea, together with the Danish Wadden Sea, belongs to the North Sea.
Compared to the geologically similar East Frisian Islands of the southern Wadden Sea, Trischen is considerably smaller and younger.
The Frisian Islands, also known as the Wadden Islands or Wadden Sea Islands, form an archipelago at the eastern edge of the North Sea in northwestern Europe, stretching from the north-west of the Netherlands through Germany to the west of Denmark.
Although it is no Wadden Island, there are strong cultural links with the Wadden area, for example a dialect of North Frisian is spoken here.
Since 1929, a small causeway rail connects Dagebüll to the Halligen of Oland and Langeneß across the North Frisian Wadden Sea.
The Halligen ( singular Hallig ) are ten small German islands without protective dikes in the North Frisian Islands on Schleswig-Holstein's Wadden Sea-North Sea coast in the district of Nordfriesland.
The Frisian Islands are generally the line of demarcation separating the North Sea from the Wadden Sea, which is a shallow sea of approximately 5000 square kilometers in size, riddled with small islands and tidal flats.
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