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Heligoland ( German: Helgoland; Heligolandic Frisian: deät Lun ["the Land"]) is a small German archipelago in the North Sea. The islands were at one time Danish and later British possessions.
The islands (population 1,127) are located in the Heligoland Bight (part of the German Bight) in the southeastern corner of the North Sea.
The islands are the only German islands not in the immediate vicinity of the mainland. They lie approximately by sea from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the River Elbe. During the period of British possession, the lyrics to the song known as " Deutschland über alles", which became the national anthem of Germany, were written on the island by August Heinrich Hoffmann in 1841, while he was vacationing there (the third verse of this song is still Germany's national anthem).
In addition to German, the local population, who are ethnic Frisians, speak the Heligolandic dialect of the North Frisian language called Halunder. Heligoland used to be called Heyligeland, or "holy land", possibly due to the island's long association with the god Forseti.
Heligoland is a German island in the North Sea.
Heligoland or Helgoland may also refer to:
- Heligoland (band), a five-piece independent band from Melbourne, Australia
- Heligoland (album), an album by British trip-hop band Massive Attack
- Helgoland (Bruckner), a work for male chorus and orchestra by Anton Bruckner
- Heligoland (novel), a 2003 novel by Shena Mackay
- KMD Helgoland, a Danish ironclad.
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, a Dreadnought-type battleship of the Kaiserliche Marine launched in 1909
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, a class of German dreadnought battleships
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, an Austro-Hungarian cruiser that sank the Monge captained by Roland Morillot
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, a whaler requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War
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, lead ship of the
- Tim Friese-Greene or Heligoland, musician and producer
- The 'Helgoland' underwater laboratory (UWL) is an underwater habitat.
Heligoland are a five-piece band from Melbourne, Australia. Heligoland's songs and sound have been compared to the atmospheric textures and soaring female vocals of the Cocteau Twins, the spartan soulfulness of Low and the wistful melancholy of Mojave 3.
Heligoland is the fifth regular studio album from the collaborative British music production duo Massive Attack, named after a German archipelago. It was released 8 February 2010 (9 February 2010 in US and Canada) – seven years after the release of their previous non-soundtrack, standalone studio album, 100th Window. It has been certified Gold in the United Kingdom.
Heligoland, is a novel by British author Shena Mackay, first published in 2003 by Jonathan Cape. It was shortlisted for both Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. The Guardian says of the book "This is drawn so playfully and so compassionately - and with such consistently beautiful writing - that the experience is mysteriously comic and sweet."
Usage examples of "heligoland".
When the sharp outlines of the red cliffs of Heligoland appeared, the German cruiser Seeadler came from the island to meet the squadron and reported that the coast ironclads Aegir and Odin, the cruisers Hansa, Vineta, Freya, and Hertha, together with the torpedo-boats, had set out from Wilhelmshaven during the night and had seen nothing of the enemy.
But the German fighter controllers covering the Heligoland Bight area did not commit their main force of fighters too early and, when the combat wings of B-17s bound for both Hamburg and Hannover later approached the German coast, they were met by strong fighter opposition.
He was a veteran of the battles of Heligoland, Dogger Bank, and Jutland, and a recipient of the Grand Cross, the Order of Orange-Nassau of Holland, and the Russian Order of St.