Cormorant Island

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cormorant Island
Cormorant Island (right above the center of the picture)
Cormorant Island (right above the center of the picture)
Waters German Bight , North Sea
Geographical location 54 ° 44 '40 "  N , 8 ° 21' 28"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 44 '40 "  N , 8 ° 21' 28"  E
Cormorant Island (Schleswig-Holstein)
Cormorant Island
The Cormorant Island can be seen as a bright spot at the bottom of the Landsat image between Sylt and Föhr.
The Cormorant Island can be seen as a bright spot at the bottom of the Landsat picture between Sylt and Föhr.
The cormorant island between the island of Föhr and the southern tip of the island of Sylt

The Cormorant Island is a high sand in the Wadden Sea of the German Bight . It is about 3.5 kilometers away from the Schleswig-Holstein islands of Sylt , Föhr and Amrum . It was first recorded on nautical charts in 2000.

Surname

The cormorant island was probably named by participants in a survey trip.

geography

The Kormoraninsel is located east of Hörnum-Odde , west-northwest of Dunsum and north of Amrumer Odde . The surrounding sandbank is known as Liinsand . The roughly crescent-shaped, 500-meter-long high sand is used by seals and numerous sea birds. An approach is possible as part of a guided mudflat hike from Föhr and Amrum. The high sand, on the other hand, is separated from Hörnum-Odde by the 23 meters deep Hörnumtief .

history

The cormorant island grew after 2000 when sand was washed up. Sources of the sand - recognizable by the grain size - are mainly the sand pre-washings off Sylt and the sandbanks west of the Cormorant Island, including the Jungnamensand . Between 2016 and 2017 the high sand lost about half of its area.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Astrid Thomas-Niemann: A spring hike to the cormorant island. amrum-news.de from April 13, 2017
  2. ↑ Oliver Abraham: Journey: New Land Norderoogsand. Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 19, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2017