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Fanø is a Danish island in the North Sea and a municipality in the county of Ribe. The municipality covers an area of 56 km², and has a total population of 3,214 as of 2005. It is one of the North Frisian Islands. Fanø is located just off Esbjerg to which it is connected by 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. 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. The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... Ribes Amt (English Ribe County) is a county in southwest Denmark on the peninsula of Jutland. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... Esbjerg is a municipality in south-west Denmark, in the county of Ribe on the peninsula of Jutland. ... 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. ... This article deals with the tree; for the e-mail client see Pine email client Species About 115. ...


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  • Official website (http://www.fanoe.dk)

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