Satellite view of the German Bight, Jutland to the right (east).
German Bight ( Deutsche Bucht in German, Tyskebugt in Danish) is the south-eastern bight of the North Sea that corners the Netherlands and Germany to the south, Denmark and Germany to the east (Jutlandpeninsula). To the north and west it's limited by the dogger bank. The southern part is also known as Heligoland Bight. The Frisian islands and the nearby coastal area are collectively known as Frisia. Image File history File links German_Bight. ... Image File history File links German_Bight. ... In geography, a bight is a bend or curve in the coastline. ... 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. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: Jütland) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the mainland part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ... Peninsula A peninsula (from Latin paene insula, almost island) is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides. ... Dogger Bank is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100km off the coast of the United Kingdom. ... The Heligoland Bight (also known as Helgoland Bight or German Bight) is a bay of the North Sea, located at the mouth of the Elbe river. ... The Frisian Islands form an archipelago in northwestern Europe that spreads across the coasts of three countries, from west to east, The Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. ... Satellite view of the German Bight (the Frisian Coast). ...
Formerly a British possession, the islands (population 1,650) are located in the Heligoland Bight or GermanBight in the south-east corner of the North Sea.
Heligoland is located 70 km from the German coast line, and actually consists of two islands: the populated 1.0 km² main island (Hauptinsel) to the west and the Düne ("dune") to the east, which is somewhat smaller at 0.7 km², as well as lower, surrounded by sand beaches and not permanently inhabited.
The island of Heligoland is a geological oddity; the presence of the main island's characteristic red sedimentary rock in the middle of the GermanBight is unusual.
Along the coast the salinity increased from 28 psu in the GermanBight to 32-33 psu at Hirtshals and in the northernmost Kattegat, as the GermanBight water within the JCC is mixed with North Sea and Skagerrak water.
At the southernmost transect (St. 1059-1064) in the GermanBight a highly significant linear correlation between salinity and the concentrations of all inorganic nutrients were found.
In the GermanBight a highly significant linear correlation between salinity and all inorganic nutrients was observed, and the distribution of the nutrients in the rest of the eastern North Sea generally followed these regression lines.
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