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Satellite view of the German Bight, Jutland to the right (east).
German Bight (German: Deutsche Bucht, Danish: Tyske Bugt, Dutch: Duitse Bocht, Frisian: Dútske bocht) is the south-eastern bight of the North Sea bounded by the Netherlands and Germany to the south, and Denmark and Germany to the east (the Jutland peninsula). To the north and west it's limited by the Dogger Bank. The bight contains the Frisian and Danish Islands. The Frisian islands and the nearby coastal areas are collectively known as Frisia. The southern portion of the bight is also known as the Heligoland Bight. Between 1949 and 1956 the BBC Sea Area Forecast (Shipping Forecast) used "Heligoland" as the designation for the area known as the German Bight.

Popular Culture

In the book A Kestrel for a Knave and its film Kes the shipping forecast is featured in the classroom register roll call when lead character Billy Casper calls out German Bight after the teacher reads out the name of a pupil called Fisher. (Author Barry Hines erroneously has Billy then say that Cromarty follows German Bight.)

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German language (Deutsch, ] (help info ) ) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.
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Official language of:  Denmark
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Regulated by: Dansk Sprognævn ("Danish Language Committee")
Language codes
ISO 639-1: da
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Writing system: Latin alphabet (Dutch variant) 
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Official language of:  Aruba
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Frisian}}} 
Writing system: Latin alphabet 
Official status
Official language of: Netherlands
Regulated by: Fryske Akademy
Language codes
ISO 639-1: fy
ISO 639-2: fry
ISO 639-3: variously:
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For other meanings of bight, see Bight.


In geography, bight has two meanings.

A bight can be simply a bend or curve in any geographical feature—usually a bend or curve in the line between land and water.
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The North Sea is marginal, epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European continental shelf between Norway and Denmark in the east, Scotland and England in the west, and Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in the south.
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Motto
"Je maintiendrai"   (French)
"Ik zal handhaven"   (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"1
Anthem
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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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Motto
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(Royal motto: Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke
"The Help of God, the Love of the People, the Strength of Denmark" )
Anthem
Der er et yndigt land  (national)
Kong Christian
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A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered on three sides by water. A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit.[1]

Europe

  • Europe itself is a peninsula.

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Dogger Bank (from dogge, an old Dutch word for fishing boat) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 km off the coast of the United Kingdom.
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Frisian Islands form an archipelago at the eastern edge of the North Sea in northwestern Europe, and spread east–west along the coasts of two countries, The Netherlands and Germany.
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Danish Wadden Sea Islands are a group of islands on the western coast of Jutland, Denmark. They belong to the new region South Denmark since January 1, 2007. Previously they belonged to the counties of South Jutland and Ribe.
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Frisia (West Frisian: Fryslân; North Frisian: Fraschlönj, Freesklöön, Freeskluin, Fresklun, and Friislön’; Saterfrisian (East Frisian): Fräislound; East Frisian Low Saxon: Freesland; Gronings:
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Heligoland Bight (also known as Helgoland Bight) is the southern part of the German Bight, itself a bay of the North Sea, located at the mouth of the Elbe river. Named after the Heligoland Island, it was the location of the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
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The Shipping Forecast is a four-times-daily BBC radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of Britain and Ireland.

It is produced by the UK Meteorological Office (part of MOD) and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and
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Kes is a British film from 1969 by director Ken Loach and producer Tony Garnett. The film is based on the novel, A Kestrel for a Knave written by Barry Hines in 1968.
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Barry Hines (born 1939 in Hoyland, near Barnsley, England) is a British author who has written several popular novels and television scripts. Born in Hoyland Common near Barnsley, England, Barry Hines first worked in surveying and played football.
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Frisia (West Frisian: Fryslân; North Frisian: Fraschlönj, Freesklöön, Freeskluin, Fresklun, and Friislön’; Saterfrisian (East Frisian): Fräislound; East Frisian Low Saxon: Freesland; Gronings:
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Frisian Islands form an archipelago at the eastern edge of the North Sea in northwestern Europe, and spread east–west along the coasts of two countries, The Netherlands and Germany.
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Wadden Sea (Vadehavet in Danish, Waddenzee in Dutch, Waadsee in Frisian, Wattensee in Low German, Wattenmeer in German) is the name for a body of water and its associated coastal wetlands lying between a section of the coast of
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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