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Mellum

Mellum is an uninhabited lying southeast of , off the coastal settlements of Horumersiel and in Germany. Mellum formed as an island off the end of the peninsula—which divides the outflows into the of the Jade and Weser rivers—only at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Schillig and Wilhelmshaven LNG terminal.

Village
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is a village in the district of in . It is situated on the west coast of Jade Bay and is 20 km north of the town of . is situated 9 km west of Mellum.

Locality
is Germany's first liquefied natural gas shipping terminal, situated near Wilhelmshaven, Germany on the . It had been in the planning stages since the mid-2010s, and in 2022 gained rapid regulatory authority approval for construction following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the global natural gas supply crisis. is situated 9 km south of Mellum.

Mellum

Latitude
53.7207° or 53° 43′ 15″ north
Longitude
8.15293° or 8° 9′ 11″ east
Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)
Open location code
9F5CP5C3+75
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4102297
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2957893
Wiki­data ID
Q696280
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Mellum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميلوم”
  • Catalan: “Mellum”
  • Cebuano: “Mellum”
  • Czech: “Mellum”
  • Danish: “Mellum”
  • Dutch: “Alte Mellum”
  • Dutch: “Mellum”
  • French: “Mellum”
  • German: “Alte Mellum”
  • German: “Mellum”
  • Hungarian: “Mellum”
  • Italian: “Mellum”
  • Japanese: “メルム島”
  • Low German: “Mellum”
  • Macedonian: “Мелум”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mellum”
  • Portuguese: “Mellum”
  • Romanian: “Mellum”
  • Russian: “Меллум”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Mellum”
  • Spanish: “Mellum”
  • Uzbek: “Mellum”
  • Western Frisian: “Mellum”
  • “Mellum”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mellum”. Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.