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NORDERNEY (i.e. " northern island ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 741 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NORDERNEY (i.e. "
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northern
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island ")  , an
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island of
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Germany, in the
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North
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Sea, the largest of the
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East
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Friesland
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group, belonging to the Prussian
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province of
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Hanover . Pop . (1905) 3888 . It is 8 m.
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long and about 1 m. broad, and supports a seafaring and fishing
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population . It is reached by steamer from Geestemiinde,
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Emden,
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Bremen or
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Hamburg, and at
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low
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tide by road from the mainland . The
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village at the S.W. end of the island is one of the most popular sea-bathing places in Germany, and is visited annually by some 26,000 visitors . On the S.
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side rises a lighthouse 195 ft. high, while the E. end of the island is filled with
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sand
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dunes ranging in height from 50 to 75 ft .
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Norderney is immortalized by its association with Heinrich
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Heine's Nordseebilder . See Berenberg, Das Nordseebad Norderney (
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Norden, 1895) ; C . Herquet, Geschichte der Insel Norderney 1398—1711 (1890); and the
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article FRISIAN ISLANDS .

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