Norderney is one of the seven populated East Frisian Islands off the coast of Germany. It is a part of the state of Lower Saxony. It has an area of ca. 26.3 km². The main town is also called Norderney. It was an important vacation spa, with important guests such as Franz Kafka staying there. The East Frisian Islands (German: Ostfriesische Inseln) are a chain of islands in the North Sea, off the coast of Lower Saxony, Germany. ... With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ... Franz Kafka approximately 1917 Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 in Prague, Austria-Hungary - June 3, 1924 in Vienna, Austria) was one of the major German language writers of the 20th century most of whose work was published posthumously. ...
The full-size Norderney is employed for survey work in the coastal regions of the North Sea, and her specific purpose is to check and correct sea charts.
The robbe Norderney survey ship has proved to be an outstandingly successful true-scale model, emulating all the running characteristics and most of the auxiliary working systems of the full-size vessel.
The Norderney can be fitted with numerous auxiliary working systems, such as lowering and retrieving the sounding boat "Möwe" from the after deck, a working anchor winch, sound module, foghorn, radar and lighting, with the result that the operator never runs out of interesting options when running the boat.