Holland Island

Holland Island is a marshy, rapidly eroding island in the , in , , west of . The island was once inhabited by watermen and farmers but has since been abandoned due to sinking of the land's surface associated with isostatic subsidence and sea level rise.
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  • Island
  • …lies at an elevation of -3 feet (-1 metres)
  • Description: island in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as
    “Holland Island Bar”
    “Holland’s Island”

Holland Island

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Latitude
38.11957° or 38° 7′ 11″ north
Longitude
-76.08827° or 76° 5′ 18″ west
Open location code
87C54W96+RM
Geo­Names ID
4358252
Wiki­data ID
Q5880990

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Thai—“Holland Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Holland Island”
  • Dutch: “Holland Island”
  • Esperanto: “Holland (insulo)”
  • Esperanto: “Holland”
  • Estonian: “Hollandi saar”
  • French: “Holland Island”
  • German: “Holland Island”
  • Russian: “Холленд”
  • Thai: “เกาะฮอลแลนด์”

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