NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Danish Wadden Sea Islands

The Danish Wadden Sea Islands are a group of islands on the western coast of Jutland, Denmark. They belong to the Danish counties of South Jutland and Ribe. They will belong to the new region South Denmark from January 1, 2007. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x2304, 502 KB) Windmill in SÃ¸nderho, FanÃ¸, Denmark. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x2304, 502 KB) Windmill in SÃ¸nderho, FanÃ¸, Denmark. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: JÃ¼tland; Frisian JutlÃ¢n; Low German JÃ¶tlann) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the only non-insular part of Denmark and also the northernmost part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ... Denmark is divided into 13 counties (amter), and 271 municipalities (kommuner): Copenhagen County comprise the municipalities in metropolitan Copenhagen, except Copenhagen Municipality and Frederiksberg Municipality. ... SÃ¸nderjyllands Amt (English: South Jutland County) is a county (Danish, amt) on the Jutland peninsula in southern Denmark. ... Ribes Amt (English Ribe County) is a county in southwest Denmark on the peninsula of Jutland. ... Administrative division of Denmark. ... Region Syddanmark (English: Region South Denmark) is a new region created under the Danish Municipal Reform, which replaces the traditional counties (amter) with five larger regions as well as unites a number of smaller municipalities into larger units. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD (or CE) era. ...

The Danish islands differ from the German North Frisian Islands because no Frisians live on the Danish islands. Map of North Frisian Islands 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 and Jutland, Denmark. ... The Frisians are an ethnic group of northwestern Europe, inhabiting an area known as Frisia. ...

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Fanø is located just off Esbjerg to which it is connected by a ferry. The main towns on Fanø are Nordby and Sønderho. Other towns include Fanø Vesterhavsbad and Rindby. The island is 16 km long and 5 km wide, and has an area of 56 km². As of 2005, about 3,169 people live there. A variety of environments is to be found on Fanø. Not surprisingly, a very common one is sand. The island's whole western shore is made up of beaches, and the sea off the island's northwest end is also home to the "Søren-Jessens-Sand", a vast sandbank. Fanø also has heath and a small pine wood. SÃ¸nderho windmill on FanÃ¸ FanÃ¸ is a Danish island in the North Sea off the coast of southwestern Denmark, and a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ribe County. ... Old watertower in Esbjerg View to Esbjerg harbour from the watertower (May 2005) Map of the municipality Esbjerg is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Syddanmark (South Denmark Region) on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. ... A sandbank is a patch of sand in water, which creates a shallow area which may pose a hazard to boats. ... Heaths are anthropogenic habitats found primarily in northern and western Europe, where they have been created by thousands of years of human clearance of natural forest vegetation by grazing and burning on mainly infertile acidic soils. ... Subgenera Subgenus Strobus Subgenus Ducampopinus Subgenus Pinus See Pinus classification for complete taxonomy to species level. ...

Mandø is a smaller island farther south, a bit farther from the mainland. It is Denmark's only Hallig, being much like the islands bearing that description among the German islands. A dike on Mandø keeps the sea at bay. Much of the islanders' history involve efforts to reclaim parts of their island from the sea. MandÃ¸ is a Danish island in the Wadden Sea. ... North Frisian Islands with Halligen (darker green) A Hallig (plural Halligen) is one of the ten small German islands without protective dikes in the North Frisian Islands on Schleswig-Holstein’s Wadden Sea-North Sea coast. ...

Rømø is currently the southernmost of Denmark's Wadden Sea Islands (a small uninhabited one called Jordsand was farther south, but sank in 1999). Rømø is linked to the Danish mainland by a road running across a causeway, and the island also lies only about 3 km from its German neighbour Sylt, to which it is connected by ferry. It is home to a number of small communities such as Kongsmark, Østerby, Lakolk, and Sønderstrand. RÃ¸mÃ¸ Church RÃ¸mÃ¸ is a Danish island in the Wadden Sea. ... Jordsand was a small Danish hallig located in the Wadden Sea southeast of the Danish island RÃ¸mÃ¸ and east of the German island Sylt. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The German island of Sylt is located in the North Sea off the west coast of Germany and Denmark. ...

There is also a small island among Denmark's share of the archipelago called Langli, which is to be found in the Ho Bugt north of Esbjerg. It is the northernmost island in the whole group. It was once part of a peninsula whose landward stretch was washed away in a storm tide centuries ago. Since then, another spit has formed to the west and now shields Langli from some of the sea's more destructive tendencies. Langli is nowadays home to a natural science station, housed in a villa built in the 20th century. Langli has an area of about 8 km² and can be reached from the mainland over an ebbevej (watershed) that is 3 km long. The Mergui Archipelago An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. ... Langli is a small marsh island close in the Ho-Bucht near Esbjerg at the Danish North Sea Coast. ... A spit is a deposition landform found off coasts. ... Langli is a small marsh island close in the Ho-Bucht near Esbjerg at the Danish North Sea Coast. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Langli is a small marsh island close in the Ho-Bucht near Esbjerg at the Danish North Sea Coast. ...

Jordsand and Koresand are two sandbanks in the danish Wadden Sea. Jordsand is a former hallig. Jordsand was a small Danish hallig located in the Wadden Sea southeast of the Danish island RÃ¸mÃ¸ and east of the German island Sylt. ... A sandbank is a patch of sand in water, which creates a shallow area which may pose a hazard to boats. ... Satellite image of the southwestern part of the Wadden Sea. ...

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