Simonszand
Simonszand is a sandbank between the West Frisian Islands of Schiermonnikoog and Rottumerplaat in the Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Het Hogeland in the province of Groningen.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Protected area
- Description: island in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Simonsplaat”
Simonszand
- Categories: island and shoal
- Location: Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.51364° or 53° 30′ 49″ north
Longitude
6.41484° or 6° 24′ 53″ east
Open location code
9F58GC77+FW
OpenStreetMap ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Simonszand” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيمونزاند”
- Bulgarian: “Симонсзанд”
- Catalan: “Simonszand”
- Cebuano: “Simonszand”
- Dutch: “Simonszand”
- French: “Simonszand”
- German: “Simonszand”
- Italian: “Simonszand”
- Japanese: “シモンスザント島”
- Northern Frisian: “Simonszand”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Simonszand”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Simonszand”
- Norwegian: “Simonszand”
- Russian: “Симонсзанд”
- Spanish: “Simonszand”
- Western Frisian: “Simenssân”
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