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Schleswig-Holstein
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Heligoland

Heligoland is a small archipelago in the North Sea. It's a somewhat popular destination for one-day ship cruises. A feature of the island is almost total absence of car traffic, which makes it a safe and quiet location, and a hotspot for birdwatching.
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  • Type: Town with 1,310 residents
  • Description: municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  • Also known as: “Helgoland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Heligoland Airfield and Heligoland Lighthouse.

Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Heligoland Airport is an airfield on the island of , the smaller of the two isles of the Heligoland archipelago in the , about 70 kilometres from the mainland.

Lighthouse
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is located on Germany's only offshore island, Heligoland. Constructed during World War II as an anti-aircraft tower, it was turned into a lighthouse in 1952.

Hospital
Photo: Timo Kamph, CC BY 2.0.
is a hospital.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Heligoland Oberland.

Suburb
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a suburb.

Heligoland

Latitude
54.1821° or 54° 10′ 55″ north
Longitude
7.8876° or 7° 53′ 16″ east
Population
1,310
Open location code
9F695VJQ+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8538158539
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6551689
Wiki­data ID
Q3038
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Heligoland” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Helgoland”
  • Afrikaans: “Helgoland”
  • Albanian: “Helgoland”
  • Arabic: “هليغولاند”
  • Aragonese: “Helgoland”
  • Armenian: “Հելգոլանդ”
  • Arpitan: “Helgoland”
  • Asturian: “Helgoland”
  • Azerbaijani: “Heliqoland”
  • Basque: “Helgoland”
  • Bavarian: “Helgoland”
  • Belarusian: “Гельгаланд”
  • Bengali: “হেলিগোল্যান্ড”
  • Breton: “Helgoland”
  • Bulgarian: “Хелголанд”
  • Burmese: “ဟယ်လီဂိုလန်ကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Helgoland”
  • Cebuano: “Helgoland”
  • Chechen: “Хельголанд”
  • Chinese: “Heligoland”
  • Chinese: “海姑兰岛”
  • Chinese: “海姑蘭島”
  • Chinese: “赫尔戈兰岛”
  • Chinese: “赫尔果兰岛”
  • Chinese: “黑尔戈兰”
  • Chinese: “黑爾戈蘭”
  • Chinese: “黑爾戈蘭島”
  • Corsican: “Helgoland”
  • Croatian: “Helgoland”
  • Czech: “Helgoland”
  • Danish: “Helgoland”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Helgoland”
  • Dutch: “Helgoland”
  • Esperanto: “Helgoland”
  • Estonian: “Helgoland”
  • Finnish: “Helgoland”
  • French: “Heligoland”
  • Friulian: “Helgoland”
  • Galician: “Helgoland”
  • Georgian: “ჰელგოლანდი”
  • German: “Helgoland”
  • Greek: “Ελιγολάνδη”
  • Greek: “Χέλγκολαντ”
  • Hausa: “Heligoland”
  • Hebrew: “הלגולנד”
  • Hindi: “हेल्गोलैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Helgoland”
  • Icelandic: “Helgoland”
  • Ido: “Helgoland”
  • Indonesian: “Helgoland”
  • Indonesian: “Heligoland”
  • Interlingua: “Helgoland”
  • Interlingue: “Helgoland”
  • Irish: “Helgoland”
  • Italian: “Helgoland”
  • Japanese: “ヘルゴラント島”
  • Kazakh: “Гельголанд”
  • Kirghiz: “Гельголанд”
  • Kongo: “Helgoland”
  • Korean: “헬골란트섬”
  • Ladin: “Helgoland”
  • Ladin: “Heligoland”
  • Latin: “Farria”
  • Latin: “Fostelandia”
  • Latin: “Helgolandia”
  • Latin: “Terra Sacra”
  • Latvian: “Helgolande”
  • Ligurian: “Helgoland”
  • Limburgan: “Helgoland”
  • Lithuanian: “Helgolandas”
  • Low German: “Helgoland”
  • Low German: “Hellegolaand”
  • Luxembourgish: “Helgoland”
  • Macedonian: “Хелголанд”
  • Malagasy: “Helgoland”
  • Malay: “Heligoland”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Heligoland”
  • Minangkabau: “Helgoland”
  • Narom: “Helgoland”
  • Neapolitan: “Helgoland”
  • Northern Frisian: “Halaglun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helgoland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helgoland”
  • Norwegian: “Helgoland”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Heligoland”
  • Ossetian: “Хельголанд”
  • Persian: “هلگولند”
  • Persian: “هلیگولند”
  • Picard: “Helgoland”
  • Piemontese: “Helgoland”
  • Polish: “Helgoland”
  • Portuguese: “Helgoland”
  • Portuguese: “Heligolândia”
  • Romanian: “Helgoland”
  • Romansh: “Helgoland”
  • Russian: “Гельголанд”
  • Russian: “Хельголанд”
  • Sardinian: “Helgoland”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hälgelound”
  • Scots: “Helgoland”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Helgoland”
  • Serbian: “Helgoland”
  • Serbian: “Хелголанд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Helgoland”
  • Sicilian: “Helgoland”
  • Slovak: “Helgoland”
  • Slovenian: “Helgoland”
  • Spanish: “Heligoland”
  • Swahili: “Helgoland”
  • Swedish: “Helgoland”
  • Swiss German: “Helgoland”
  • Tatar: “Һелголанд”
  • Thai: “เฮ็ลโกลันท์”
  • Turkish: “Helgoland”
  • Ukrainian: “Гельголанд”
  • Ukrainian: “Гельґоланд”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Helgoland”
  • Uzbek: “Helgoland”
  • Venetian: “Helgoland”
  • Vietnamese: “Helgoland”
  • Vietnamese: “Heligoland”
  • Vlaams: “Helgoland”
  • Volapük: “Helgoland”
  • Walloon: “Helgoland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Heligoland”
  • Welsh: “Helgoland”
  • Western Frisian: “Helgolân”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیلگولینڈ”
  • Wolof: “Helgoland”
  • Wu Chinese: “黑尔戈兰”
  • Yiddish: “העלגאלאנד”
  • Yue Chinese: “海姑蘭”
  • Zulu: “Helgoland”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Heligoland”. Photo: Danapit, CC BY-SA 2.5.