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Satellite image of the southwestern part of the Wadden Sea.
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Wadden Sea near Wilhelmshaven, Germany


The 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 northwestern continental Europe and the North Sea.

The Wadden Sea stretches from Den Helder in the Netherlands in the southwest, past the river estuaries of Germany to its northern boundary at Skallingen north of Esbjerg in Denmark along a total length of some 500 km and a total area of about 10,000 km².

It is typified by extensive tidal mud flats, deeper tidal trenches and the islands that are contained within this, a region continually contested by land and sea. The landscape had been formed for a great part by storm tides.

The Wadden Sea is famous for the rich fauna, avifauna and flora. Today, a great part of the Wadden Sea is protected in cooperation of all three countries; see Wadden Sea National Parks for the protected areas within the German borders.

The Governments of The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have been working together since 1978 on the protection and conservation of the Wadden Sea. Co-operation covers management, monitoring and research, as well as political matters. Furthermore, in 1982, a Joint Declaration on the Protection of the Wadden Sea was agreed upon to co-ordinate activities and measures for the protection of the Wadden Sea. In 1997, a Trilateral Wadden Sea Plan was adopted.

Some Frisians practice the traditional sport or recreation of wadlopen, or low-tide sea-walking in the Wadden Sea.

For the islands, see the applicable sections of List of islands of the Netherlands, Frisian Islands and Danish Wadden Sea Islands.

Note that the word "wad" is Dutch for mudflat.

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Official language of: Netherlands
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Low German (also called Niederdeutsch, Plattdeutsch or Plattdüütsch) is a name for the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in Northern Germany where it is officially called Niederdeutsch
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In physical geography, a wetland is an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems making them inherently
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Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea,
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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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Den Helder

Coordinates:
Country Netherlands
Province North Holland
Area (2006)
 - Municipality 178.83 km  (0 sq mi)
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"Je maintiendrai"   (French)
"Ik zal handhaven"   (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"1
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"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
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Esbjerg harbor from the watertower (May 2005)


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(Royal motto: Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke
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Der er et yndigt land  (national)
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Mudflats are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by the tides or rivers, sea and oceans. They are found in sheltered areas such as bays, bayous, lagoons, and estuaries.
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island (IPA: /aɪ.lɪnd/) or isle (IPA: /aɪ.ʌl
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A storm tide is a tide with a high flood period caused by a storm. Storm tides can be a severe danger to the coast and the people living along the coast. The water level can rise to more than 5 m (17 ft) above the normal tide. Compare to storm surge.
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Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora.

Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g.
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The term avifauna can be used in one of two senses:
  • to mean "bird fauna" i.e. the bird species found in a particular geographic region (e.g. "the avifauna of India")

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The Wadden Sea National Parks are located along the German coast of the North Sea. Actually they consist of three national parks:
  • Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park

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Wadlopen is a recreation enjoyed by Frisians, Dutch, Germans, Danes, and others in the Netherlands, northwest Germany and in Denmark. Wadlopers are men and women who, with the aid of a tide table, use a period of low water to walk and wade on the watershed of the mudflats,
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This is a list of islands of the Netherlands.
  • West Frisian Islands (in the Wadden Sea)
  • Noorderhaaks
  • Texel

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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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Mudflats are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by the tides or rivers, sea and oceans. They are found in sheltered areas such as bays, bayous, lagoons, and estuaries.
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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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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
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