Infobox German Location Name Borkum image photo Blick vom neuen Leuchtturm der Insel Borkum in der Nordsee.jpg imagesize 250px image caption Borkum photographed from a lighthouse Wappen Wappen Borkum.png lat deg 53 lat min 35 lat sec 17 lon deg 06 lon min 40 lon sec 11 Lageplan Borkum in LER.svg Bundesland ... www.stadt borkum.de B rgermeister Kristin Mahlitz Partei Independent Borkum is an island and a municipality ... left Island map Borkum is bordered to the west by the Westerems strait which forms the border with the Netherlands ... as Burchana fabaria island of beans by both Strabo and Pliny the elder , Borkum by the time of Charlemagne ... islands of Borkum, Juist and the western part of Norderney . In 1484, Bant passed to the Earls of East ... of Monterey, Mexico Monterey with those of Borkum, the one spot on earth from which Jew s are banished . This had to do with the aggressive and successful campaign of German tourists to keep Borkum free from Jewish visitors, as celebrated in the antisemitic Borkum Lied . ref cite web url http www.volksliederarchiv.de text4334.html title Wir gr en heut im frohen Lied antisemitisches Borkum Lied ... Borkum. There is an air field in the T skend r area. Borkum is serviced by ferries from Emden , Germany ... of Borkum. See also List of ferry boats of the East Frisian Islands References Reflist External links Commons category Borkum Wikisource1911Enc http www.borkum.de Official site de icon http en.borkum.de Official site En icon http www.borkumer seiten.de Web Directory with the topic Borkum de icon http www.ferienwohnung borkum.biz Web Directory with the topic Borkum s summer residence de icon Frisian ... border crossings Category Towns and villages in East Frisia Category East Frisian Islands ca Borkum da Borkum de Borkum et Borkum es Borkum eo Borkum fa fr Borkum fy Boarkum is Borkum it Borkum he ka hu Borkum ms Borkum nl Borkum no Borkum nn Borkum nds Borkum pl Borkum pt Borkum ro Borkum ru stq Borkum sr sv Borkum tr Borkum vi Borkum vo Borkum war Borkum ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Unreferenced date August 2008 Borkum Riff is a brand of pipe tobacco manufactured in Denmark by Swedish Match . citation needed date August 2008 History Originally, Borkum Riff was a lighthouse located at 53 58 N, and 6 22 E in Heligoland Bay off the Dutch coast in the North Sea . It was a landmark for seafarers and was well known to Swedish radio listeners, as weather reports mentioned Borkum Riff several times a day. The former lightship called Borkum Riff was used from 1960 to 1964 as the first radio ship of Radio Veronica , which became the first off shore radio station in the Netherlands. During the 1960s, a pipe tobacco was launched in Sweden with brand name Borkum Riff. The tobacco was a rough cut blend of Virginia and Burley tobaccos. Initial sales were low but when a whiskey flavour was introduced, sales increased. Today, the Borkum ... developed with an eye on the US pipe tobacco market. Borkum Riff, the Bourbon Whiskey blend, was successfully .... Today, Borkum Riff is also sold in India , Canada , Australia , Switzerland , Norway , Spain .... Borkum Riff s biggest market is the United States , where it was originally launched in 1969. The brand comes in several different flavours Borkum Riff Original Borkum Riff Bourbon Whisky Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur Borkum Riff Scandinavian Mixture Borkum Riff Orange & Honey Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish Borkum Riff Black Cavendish Borkum Riff Vanilla Cavendish Borkum Riff Champagne Borkum Riff Highland Malt Whiskey Borkum Riff Special Mixture No. 8 Borkum Riff GOLD Cherry & Vanilla Borkum Riff GOLD Malt Whiskey Borkum Riff Admiral s Flake Vanilla Borkum Riff Admiral s Flake Cherry Borkum Riff Genuine Pure Tobacco External links http www.borkumriff.com Borkum Riff web site http www.swedishmatch.com ... Offshore Radio 60 s Eng http www.offshore radio.de fleet borkum.htm Offshore Radio Borkum Riff Ship Details Eng Category Pipe tobacco brands Category 1969 introductions sv Borkum Riff ... more details
Infobox Airport name Borkum Airfield nativename lang de Flugplatz Borkum image Flugplatz Borkum.jpg image width 200 IATA BKM ICAO EDWR center Location map Germany Lower Saxony width 200 float center caption mark Airplane silhouette.svg marksize 10 label BKM position right lat deg 53 lat min 35 lat sec 44 lat dir N lon deg 06 lon min 42 lon sec 33 lon dir E small Location of the airport in Lower Saxony small center type Public owner operator Wirtschaftsbetriebe der Stadt Borkum GmbH city served Borkum , Lower Saxony , Germany location only if different elevation f 3 elevation m 1 coordinates coord 53 35 44 N 006 42 33 E region DE type airport website metric rwy y r1 number 13 31 r1 length m 1,000 r1 length f 3,281 r1 surface Asphalt r2 number 12 30 r2 length m 870 sup sup r2 length f 2,854 sup sup r2 surface Grass r3 number 05 23 r3 length m 810 r3 length f 2,657 r3 surface Grass stat year stat1 header stat1 data footnotes sup sup convert 700 m abbr on landings on 12 takeoff on 30. Sources AIRPORTS.DE, ref http www.airports.de component option,com mtree task,viewlink link id,69 Itemid,99999999 lang,en Borkum Flugplatz at AIRPORTS.DE ref DAFIF ref name WAD http www.worldaerodata.com wad.cgi?airport EDWR Airport information for EDWR from DAFIF effective October 2006 ref ref name GCM GCM BMK source DAFIF ref Borkum Airfield lang de Flugplatz Borkum airport codes BMK EDWR is an airfield serving Borkum , an island and a municipality in the Leer district Leer districts of Germany district in the Germany German states of Germany state of Lower Saxony . Facilities The airport lies at an elevation of convert 3 ft 0 above mean sea level . It has one asphalt paved runway designated 13 ... borkum.de Location.161.0.html Flugschule BorkumBorkum Flight School ASN BMK Navigation box br Airports in Germany Category Airports in Germany Category Transport in Lower Saxony de Flugplatz Borkum pl Lotnisko Borkum vi S n bay Borkum ... more details
Infobox power station name Borkum Riffgat image image caption location map North Sea location map text Location of Borkum Riffgat off the coast of Germany in the North Sea country Germany locale North Sea lat d 53 lat m 41 lat s 24 lat NS N long d 6 long m 28 long s 48 long EW E coordinates type region DE type landmark coordinates display title owner ENOVA Energiesysteme br EWE developer Offshore Windparks RIFFGAT GmbH & Co. KG status planned commissioned 2012 expected decommissioned constructor wind turbines 44 x 5 MW turbine manu Enercon turbine model hub height rotor diameter rated wind speed wind farm type offshore area convert 6 km2 sqmi 0 abbr on offshore depth convert 16 24 m ft 0 abbr on offshore distance convert 15 km mi 0 abbr on capacity factor installed capacity max planned cap 220 MW average annual gen 792 net generation website http www.enova.de index.php?m 1&hid 300 www.enova.de as of 15 January 2011 Borkum Riffgat also known as OWP Riffgat is a planned offshore wind farm being constructed convert 15 km to the north west of the German island of Borkum . The wind turbine s will be built across an area of convert 6 km2 . It will consist of 44 turbines with a total capacity of 220 megawatt MW , and is expected to generate enough electricity for 112,000 households. The project will entail investment of around 480 million US 616 million and construction work is likely to be completed in 2012. ref name pe051108 cite news url http www.powergenworldwide.com index display articledisplay 344499 articles power engineering projects contracts ewe enova form jv to develop riffgat wind park offshore germany.html title EWE, Enova form JV to develop Riffgat wind park offshore Germany work Power Engineering International publisher PennWell Corporation date 2008 11 05 accessdate 2010 08 01 ref ref name ewea cite journal url http www.ewea.org fileadmin ewea documents documents statistics Offshore Wind Farms 2008.pdf title Offshore Statistics ... more details
coord 49 42 54 N 2 11 10 W type mountain display title Lager Borkum was a Nazi concentration camps Nazi concentration camp on Alderney , in the Channel Islands , named after the East Frisian Islands East Frisian Island of Borkum . The Germans built four Nazi concentration camps concentration camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp located in Hamburg , Nazi Germany Germany . Each subcamp was named after one of the Frisian Islands Lager Norderney located at Saye, Lager Borkum at Platte Saline, Lager Sylt near the old telegraph tower at La Foul re and Lager Helgoland , situated in the northwest corner of the island. Over 700 people died in the Alderney concentration camps out of a total inmate population of about 6,000 . These were the only Nazi concentration camps on United Kingdom British soil. It was organised by the Schutzstaffel Schutzstaffel SS Baubrigade I &mdash which was first under supervision of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and since mid February 1943 ran under the Neuengamme camp in northern Germany . ref Citation author Staff title Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Au enkommandos gem 42 Abs. 2 BEG publisher Federal Ministry of Justice Germany Bundesministerium der Justiz date 1967 02 23 accessdate 2008 09 26 url http bundesrecht.juris.de begdv 6 anlage 6.html quote 6a Alderney, Einsatzort der I. SS Baubrigade Sachsenhausen, ab Mitte Februar 1943 Neuengamme de icon ref It was used by the Nazi Organisation Todt , a forced labour programme, to build bunker s, gun emplacements, air raid shelter s, and concrete fortifications. Lager Borkum was located near the centre of Alderney and was the smallest of the four camps. The Borkum and Helgoland camps were volunteer Hilfswillige labour camps ref Christian Streit Keine Kameraden ... housed Europe an usually Eastern but including Spaniard and Russia n enforced labourers. Lager Borkum ... Defunct prisons in the Channel Islands simple Lager Borkum ... more details
Infobox lighthouse name Borkum Gro er Light image name Neuer Leuchtturm Borkum.jpg caption Borkum Gro er Light, 2008 location Borkum , Germany pushpin map Germany pushpin latd 53 latm 35 lats 19.55 latNS N longd 6 longm 39 longs 43.68 longEW E coordinates display inline, title yearbuilt 1817 yearlit 1879 automated yeardeactivated foundation 3 story octagonal base construction brick shape round, gallery, lantern marking unpainted gray brown, base brown, lantern red dome. height convert 197 ft focalheight convert 207 ft lens currentlens intensity 2,000,000 candela cd range convert 24 nmi br convert 19 nmi directional white br convert 15 nmi directional red green characteristic two white flashes, separated by 2.7 s, every 12 s br Continuous white, red, or green directional lens fogsignal racon admiralty B0970 canada NGA 114 10032 ARLHS FED 009 Borkum Gro er Light from lang de Gro er Leuchtturm , greater lighthouse , also known as Borkum Neuer Light Neuer Leuchtturm , new lighthouse , is an active lighthouse on the island of Borkum , Leer district Leer Districts of Germany district , States of Germany state of Lower Saxony , Germany . At a height of convert 197 ft it is the twenty fourth tallest traditional lighthouse in the world, ref cite rowlett tallest ref as well as the third tallest brick lighthouse in the world. The lighthouse is located at the west side of the Borkum island. It is the wikt landfall landfall light for the Ems river Ems estuary and the port of Emden , serving also as a day mark. This lighthouse also bares a directional continuous light at a height of convert ... of lighthouses in Germany commonscat Borkum Neuer Lighthouse References reflist refbegin cite ngall ... Schifffahrtszeichen Leuchtturm Borkum index.html title Leuchtturm Borkum work wsa emden.de accessdate ... in Lower Saxony de Neuer Leuchtturm Borkum fr Phare de Borkum fy Nije Fjoertoer Boarkum nl Nieuwe vuurtoren van Borkum ... more details
Borkum was a Wolfpack naval tactic wolf pack of Germany German U boat s that operated during the Battle of the Atlantic 1939 1945 battle of the Atlantic in World War II . Service history Borkum was formed in December 1943 off the coast of Portugal , to intercept convoys sailing to and from Gibraltar , Mediterranean and South Atlantic . It was composed of U boats from the disbanded patrol group Wolf pack Weddigen Weddigen , with reinforcements from bases in occupied France. Borkum was first detailed to assist the passage of blockade runner s Osorno and Alsterufer which were returning to base. A surface force was also involved in this operation, code named Bernau . Allied intelligence was aware off this and deployed forces against them. ref Blair p453 ref In the ensuing actions Borkum boats U 305 and U 415 attacked escort carrier Card , without success, while two destroyers were sunk Leary by U 275 and Hurricane by U 415 . U 645 was destroyed by destroyer Schenk ref Kemp p162 ref and the Bernau force lost a destroyer and two torpedo boats. The blockade runners were also lost. The Borkum boats assisted in picking up survivors. In January 1944 Borkum was reinforced by new boats, while a number of the original group returned to base. These came under air attack crossing the Bay of Biscay , and three U 107 , U 275 and U 541 were damaged. The renewed Borkum group, of eight U boats, was re organized into three patrol lines to intercept an expected north bound convoy MKS 35 . However MKS 35 had joined with SL 144 and a US hunter killer group, centred on the carrier Block Island , while ... to a 13 hour hunt, but eventually escaped. On 11 January BdU disbanded Borkum U 953 was sent ... U 667 2 GS U 758 2 GS U 801 2 Multicol break GS U 953 2 GS U 962 2 Multicol end The name Borkum was named after the island of Borkum off the German North Sea coast. Notes reflist References Clay Blair ... links http uboat.net ops wolfpacks 162.html Borkum at uboatnet DEFAULTSORT Borkum Category Wolfpacks ... more details
Neuer may refer to tocright Organizations Neuer Auftrag Institute , a German multinational company Neuer Botanischer Garten der Universit t G ttingen , G ttingen Botanischer Garten Marburg Neuer Botanischer Garten Marburg , Marburg Botanischer Garten der Universit t T bingen Neuer Botanischer Garten T bingen , T bingen Places New Cathedral, Linz Neuer Dom , Linz Cathedral, Austria Borkum Gro er Light Borkum Neuer Light , German lighthouse Music and entertainment New German Cinema Neuer Deutscher Film or JDF, Junger Deutscher Film , a period in German cinema Ein neuer Tag A new day , the second studio album by German pop rock band Juli People Alexis Neiers born 1991 , American television personality and aspiring model Aryeh Neier born 1937 , American human rights activist Hillel Neuer , a Jewish Canadian executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO in Geneva, Switzerland Manuel Neuer born 1986 , German football goalkeeper Tex Neuer John S. Tex Neuer 1877 1966 , American Major League Baseball pitcher See also Neuner disambiguation Neumann disambiguation disambig surname DEFAULTSORT Neuer Category German words and phrases Category German language surnames Category Jewish surnames de Neuer fr Neuer ... more details
HVDC DolWin1 is an HVDC Clarify date May 2011 link under construction, which should connect the Alpha Ventus Offshore Wind Farm Borkum West II offshore wind park with the power grid of the German mainland. The link will consist of a convert 165 km long bipolar cable, from which convert 75 km will be laid in the sea and convert 90 km underground on land. The converter station for Borkum West is planned to be built on the offshore platform DolWin Alpha, that for feeding the power in the 380 kV grid at D rpen West Heede at Coord 52 58 52 N 7 15 26 E type landmark name HVDC DolWin1 Heede Static Inverter Plant . HVDC DolWin1 will be a bipolar HVDC with a voltage of 320 kV and a transmission capacity of 800 MW. As valves in both stations IGBTs will be used. The link, which will be completed in 2013, will be built by ABB Group ABB and operated by TenneT . External links http www.abb.com industries ap db0003db004333 8b74a5fe4cc03e44c125777c003f3203.aspx http www.tennettso.de pages tennettso en Press Press releases News Pressemitteilung.htm?id 1441603 Category Submarine power cables Category HVDC transmission lines Category Energy in Germany Category Proposed electric power transmission systems ... more details
This is a list of geographical features in the state of Lower Saxony , Germany . Mountains Harz Teutoburg Forest Weserbergland Rivers Aller Bode river Bode Elbe Ems river Ems Fulda River Fulda Hunte Leine Neetze Oker Oste Werra Weser Lakes D mmer Steinhuder Meer Zwischenahner Meer Islands Borkum East Frisian Islands Miscellaneous East Frisia Emsland Frisia Harz National Park Wadden Sea National Parks Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park L neburg Heath Wadden Sea L chow Dannenberg Wendland Cities seealso Category Geography of Lower Saxony Category Geography of Lower Saxony Category Lists of populated places Lower Saxony ... more details
Park . The largest island by surface area is Borkum , located at the western end of the chain the other ... L tje H rn east of Borkum, Memmert and Kachelotplate southwest of Juist, Minsener Oog , a dredged ... small style background FFFFFF align center File Wappen Borkum.gif 60px Borkum Town of Borkum Landkreis ... in the 17th century. L tje H rn east of Borkum is in constant danger of being washed away. In 2003 ... river . Most of the islands Auto free zone do not allow cars . The exceptions are Borkum and Norderney .... Each island is accessible by ferry. Lager BorkumBorkum and Lager Norderney Norderney , the Nazism ... more details
The Commercial Neutral Broadcasting Company CNBC was an English language pirate radio station which hired airtime for a few hours each day from the Netherlands Dutch pirate Radio Veronica in 1960 1961. Programmes were pre recorded at Veronica s Amsterdam studio together with the Dutch programmes, and broadcast from the Veronica ship Borkum Riff . The address for prospective advertisers was given as Ross Radio Productions Ltd, 23 Upper Wimpole Street , W postcode area W1 . ref name excerpt cite news publisher Paul Harris title The History of Offshore Radio LP date 1970 ref CNBC has the distinction of being the first pirate station to broadcast to the United Kingdom , almost four years before Radio Caroline , although few British listeners ever heard it as its signal originated from the Dutch side of the North Sea and did not penetrate very far inland. After only a few months Veronica terminated its contract because the advertising revenue from Dutch language Dutch programming was more lucrative. References references External links http www.icce.rug.nl soundscapes VOLUME05 CNBC UK.shtml Remembering CNBC Radio Category Offshore radio ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Buise was one of the East Frisian Islands off the North Sea coast of Germany that was almost entirely engulfed by the sea in the second half of the 17th century. The only remaining part is the eastern end, known today as the island of Norderney . Buise itself was formed by the breakup of a bigger island. Two possible origins are mentioned the breakup of the island Burchana in the flood of 1219, and the breakup of the island Bant island Bant in 1170, which also formed Juist , Borkum and Memmert . Buise broke up in two parts in 1362. The eastern part was called Osterende initially, and later Norder neye Oog Nordens New Island , and today is the island Norderney . The western part disappeared slowly over the ages as a result of erosion, but sources do not agree on the exact date of the disappearance of Buise the St. Peter s Flood of 1651 or 1690 . External links http www.ostfrieslandsuche.de inseln.html www.ostfrieslandsuche.de http membres.lycos.fr tpesondage Ostfriesland 2.html German East Frisian Islands Frisian Islands frieslandDE geo stub EastFrisia stub coord 53 42 26 N 7 08 49 E region DE type isle source dewiki display title Category Islands of Germany Category East Frisian Islands Category History of East Frisia cs Buise de Buise fy Buise nl Buise nn Buise nds Buise ... more details
This is a list of lighthouse s and lightvessel s in Germany . North Sea File Amrum Leuchtturm 4.jpg thumb 110px Amrum lighthouse Schleswig Holstein Amrum Lighthouse Amrum Nebel Amt Amrum Amrum Nebel B lk lighthouse B lk B sum Dageb ll lighthouse Dageb ll Heligoland lighthouse Heligoland Leuchtturm Helgoland D ne Helgoland D ne Leuchtturm H rnum H rnum Kampen lighthouse, Sylt Kampen Leuchtturm List Ost List Ost Leuchtturm List West List West Norddorf Oland lighthouse Germany Oland , Germany s only lighthouse with a thatched roof Olh rn lighthouse Olh rn Pellworm Rotes Kliff lighthouse Rotes Kliff St. Peter B hl Leuchtturm Westerheversand Westerheversand Hamburg Image Neuwerk Turm.jpg thumb 110px Neuwerk lighthouse of 1369. Neuwerk Bremen state Bremen Bremerhaven Brinkamahof Lower Saxony File Pilsumer Leuchtturm 2010 10 CN I.jpg thumb The Pilsum Lighthouse lighthouse of Pilsum Alte Weser lighthouse Arngast Borkum old lighthouse Borkum Gro er Light Campen Lighthouse Campen The Kugelbake at Cuxhaven Eckwarden Emden Hofe Hooksielplate Imsum Knock, Germany Knock Mellumplate Memmert Minsener Oog Buhne A Minsener Oog Buhne C Norderney Pilsum Lighthouse Pilsum File Leuchtturm roter sand.jpg thumb 110px Roter Sand lighthouse in the Weser estuary Roter Sand lighthouse Roter Sand Au enweser Sandstedt Schillig Solth rn Tossens Tegeler Plate Voslapp Range Rear Light Wangerooge old Wangerooge new Wilhelmshaven Wybelsum Baltic Sea File Leuchtturm Buelk 1 2009.jpg thumb B lk lighthouse at the entrance to the Kiel Bay Schleswig Holstein B lk lighthouse B lk Dahme, Schleswig Holstein Dahmesh ved Eckernf rde Fehmarnbelt Lightship , retired since 1985 Fl gge on Fehmarn Heiligenhafen Kalkgrund Kiel The lighthouse at Kiel is situated on a platform in the Bay of Kiel Kiel Friedrichsort Friedrichsort Kiel Holtenau L beck Travem nde Lighthouse Travem nde Marienleuchte, Fehmarn Neuland lighthouse Neuland File Neuland Lighthouse nr Behrensdorf.jpg thumb 110px Neuland lighthouse Pelzerhaken Sch ... more details
This is a list of island s of Germany . TOCright Largest islands class wikitable sortable Largest islands of Germany bgcolor efefef Island Sea Land Area km sup 2 sup 1. R gen Baltic Mecklenburg Vorpommern 926 2. Usedom Baltic Mecklenburg Vorpommern 373 445 km sup 1 sup 3. Fehmarn Baltic Schleswig Holstein 185 4. Sylt North Sea Schleswig Holstein 99 5. F hr North Sea Schleswig Holstein 82 6. Pellworm North Sea Schleswig Holstein 37 7. Poel Baltic Mecklenburg Vorpommern 36 8. Borkum North Sea Niedersachsen 31 9. Norderney North Sea Niedersachsen 26 10. Amrum North Sea Schleswig Holstein 20.46 11. Helgoland North Sea Schleswig Holstein 1.7 small sup 1 sup 72 km are part of Poland small Islands of the Baltic Sea Fehmarn Poel Walfisch island Langenwerder Hiddensee R gen D nholm Vilm Greifswalder Oie Ruden Ummanz Usedom Islands of the North Sea Helgoland East Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea Borkum Buise former island, disappeared L tje H rn Kachelotplate Memmert Juist Norderney Baltrum Langeoog Spiekeroog Wangerooge Mellum Neuwerk Scharh rn North Frisian Islands Sylt F hr Amrum Pellworm Nordstrand, Germany Nordstrand former island, now peninsula Halligen also part of North Frisian Islands Langene Norderoog S deroog Nordstrandischmoor Oland Frisian island Oland German island S dfall Gr de Appelland Hooge, Germany Hooge Hallig Habel Hamburger Hallig Islands of Elbe River L hesand Islands of Weser River Harriersand Islands of Lake Constance Mainau Island Reichenau Island Lindau, Lake Constance Lindau See also List of islands in the Baltic Sea List of islands Europe topic List of islands of Category Lists of islands Germany Category Landforms of Germany Category Germany related lists Islands Category Islands of Germany cs Seznam ostrov N mecka de Liste deutscher Inseln es Anexo Islas de Alemania fr Liste des les d Allemagne id Daftar pulau di Jerman ka xmf no Liste over tyske yer nn yar i Tyskland pl Wyspy N ... more details
Infobox Islands name L tje H rn image name L tje H rn 2010 07 10.jpg image caption L tje H rn in 2010 sea North Sea archipelago East Frisian Islands locator map L tje H rn in LER.svg area km2 0.065 country GER coordinates Coord 53 35 N 6 52 E type isle display inline,title population 0 L tje H rn is an uninhabited East Frisian Island in the North Sea . It belongs to Germany and is located approximately 3 to 4 kilometres southeast of Borkum in the East Frisia n Randzelwatt. L tje H rn is an unincorporated area of Leer district Leer district in Lower Saxony . History L tje H rn was first mentioned in 1576 as Hooghe H rn in a sailing guide. Since 1859 the island has been shown in topographical map s on the mudflats Watt southeast of Borkum. Geography In contrast to all other East Frisian islands, L tje Horn is aligned in a north south direction. This is due to the location of the island in the eastern channel of the Ems river Ems . Since the first documentary records the location of the island has moved about two kilometres further to the southeast. In just under 40 years, between 1961 and 1999, the island shifted about 600 metres east and 150 metres south. This corresponds to a speed of 15 metres per year eastwards and four metres per year southwards. Between 1999 to 2005, the island continued to migrate eastwards by another 100 metres. Due to erosion geology erosion L tje Horn has continuously lost surface area. The size of the island was still relatively stable in the first half of last century in 1891 it had an area of 61 hectares and, in 1937, 54 hectares. In 1957 the high water free area was still 58 hectares, including about one acre of large dunes. The 1962 storm surge storm surge of February 1962 caused a significant loss of land and dune erosion, and further losses were incurred by the storm surge winter storm surges of 1989 1990. In 1987, the area above the mean high water mark was only 23 hectares, a few years later it had reduced to just 11 hectares. Accor ... more details
The list of shipwrecks in 1998 includes all ship s sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1998. toclimit 2 January 16 January MV Flare MV Flare Flag Cyprus Bulk carrier breaks in two in severe weather and sinks off Saint Pierre and Miquelon . 21 of the crew are lost. February 17 February MV Marie Bouanga 2 flag Democratic Republic of the Congo Collided with MV Zircone 2 flag Italy civil near Borkum Borkum Riff , Germany coord 53 48 N 6 21 E . Declared a constructive total loss and scrapped. ref name BelgeHO cite web url http www.belgischekoopvaardij.net belgian 20merchant 20H O 2024.5.04.pdf title Belgian Merchant H O publisher Belgische Koopvaardij accessdate 31 October 2010 ref March 23 March MV Demetrios II 2 HON Cargo ship wrecked off Paphos in bad weather. June 9 June MV Hualien Express 2 flag Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ran aground at Kandla , India . Refloated on 8 August, salvage completed 18 August then sold for scrapping. ref name BelgeAG cite web url http www.belgischekoopvaardij.net belgian 20merchant 20A G 2023.5.04.pdf title Belgian Merchant A G publisher Belgische Koopvaardij accessdate 1 October 2010 ref September 18 September MV Princess of the Orient 2 flag Philippines Capsized and sank in a typhoon off Fortune Island, Batangas . killing around 150. 24 September MV Adolphus Busch Ocean Alley flag United Kingdom civil Wrecked at Port au Prince , Haiti . October MV Arco Arun 2 flag United Kingdom civil Capsized, Northfleet Northfleet Hope , Thames Estuary . Later raised and refloated. ref name Kent cite book first Anthony last Lane authorlink coauthors year 2009 month title Shipwrecks of Kent chapter editor others edition pages p36 publisher The History Press location Stroud isbn 978 0 7524 1720 2 url ref December 5 December MV Adolphus Busch 2 Flag United Kingdom civil Sunk as an artificial reef, off Looe Key, Florida . See also shipevents 1998 References reflist Expand list date August 2008 Category Lists of shipwrecks by year 199 ... more details
Norddeich station was a wireless radio station in Norddeich Norden Norddeich , Germany . Background The station was originally going to set up on the Borkum Island of Borkum but in the end Norddeich was chosen. ref name NYT.1905 cite news date November 19, 1905 url http query.nytimes.com mem archive free pdf?res 9402E5D6163EE733A2575AC1A9679D946497D6CF title Big wireless station nearly covers Europe format PDF publisher The New York Times accessdate September 5, 2009 last quote ref Standing at Convert 213.25 ft m high, the tower was expected to cover a circuit of not less than Convert 932 mi km . ref name NYT.1905 The station could convey messages through Europe as far as Russia , UK , part of Spain and most of Sweden and Norway . German vessels returning from North America could communicate with Germany from far out in the Atlantic once they passed 12 degrees west of Greenwich. ref name NYT.1905 In 1910, it began to broadcast a time signal along with the broadcast tower on the Eiffel Tower . ref name name cite web date Copyright 2002 url http www.antiquewireless.org otb timesignals.htm title The first wireless time signals to ships at sea work Antique Wireless Association, Inc publisher Old Timer s Bulletin On line Edition accessdate September 5, 2009 last Arthur E. Zimmerman, Ph.D. quote ref As technology improved it was involved in a number of record breaking transmissions including the 1912 record breaking distance of a wireless transmission of Convert 2400 mi km . ref name NYT.1912 cite news date October 1, 1912 url http query.nytimes.com mem archive free pdf?res 9A04E7DE133CE633A25752C0A9669D946396D6CF title Liner s wireless feat format PDF publisher The New York Times accessdate September 5, 2009 last Transatlantic quote first Marconi ref During World War I it was used to signal German naval vessels. ref name NYT.1915 cite news date May 22, 1915 url http query.nytimes.com mem archive free pdf? r 2&res 9807E2D91E3EE033A25751C2A9639C946496D6CF title Hold German ... more details
Camp date February 2003 accessdate 2009 06 06 ref The Borkum and Helgoland camps were volunteer ... harshly but marginally better than the inmates at the Sylt and Norderney camps. Lager Borkum was used ... more details
Hugh Iorys Hughes born 16 April 1902 ref http www.rootschat.com forum index.php?topic 323779.0 Discussion about H I Hughes with GRO references ref in Bangor, Wales Bangor died 1977 ref http www.gwales.com goto review cy 0863817572 www.gwales.com 9780863817571, Conwy Mulberry Harbour Bot generated title ref was a civil engineer and unsung hero of World War II who advised on the design of the Mulberry harbour s used in Operation Overlord . In 1917 Churchill drafted plans for the capture of the islands Borkum and Sylt , off the Dutch and Danish coasts. He planned using Caisson engineering caissons to form an artificial harbour when sunk on the seabed. The proposal was shelved and forgotten until 1941, when the unassuming Hughes came up with the same idea while a civil engineer living in London. He submitted detailed plans to the War Office and these were ignored until Hughes brother, a Navy commander, drew attention to the documents. The project soon gained momentum under Major General D J McMullen and civil engineer Bruce White. The first priority was the construction of two ports in the Firth of Clyde Clyde estuary , one of which was Gare Loch . ref http www.combinedops.com Mulberry 20Harbours.htm ref Hughes built a prototype for the Mulberry Harbour s at Conwy Morfa near his home town of Conwy . ref http www.bbc.co.uk coast programmes 04 cardigan bay dee.shtml BBC Coast Cardigan Bay to the Dee Bot generated title ref Hughes ashes were spread in the Menai Straits after his death in Colchester, Essex. His former house in Bangor is now let to students of Bangor University Bangor university and has a plaque outside of it in his honour. References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Iorys Hughes, Hugh ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 16 April 1902 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1977 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Iorys Hughes, Hugh Category 1977 deaths Category British civil engineers Category People from Gwynedd Category People from ... more details
Infobox power station name Alpha Ventus image Alpha ventus.jpg image caption Construction work at alpha ventus wind park location map North Sea location map text Location of Alpha Ventus off the coast of Germany on the North Sea lat d 54 lat m 1 lat NS N long d 6 long m 36 long EW E coordinates type region DE type landmark coordinates display title official name country Germany locale North Sea, convert 44 km abbr on northwest of Borkum owner EWE br E.ON br Vattenfall cost status operational construction began commissioned 2009 decommissioned wind turbines 6 AREVA Multibrid M5000 br 6 REpower 5M turbine manu Areva br REpower turbine model hub height rotor diameter rated wind speed wind farm type onshore elevation onshore land use offshore depth offshore distance installed capacity 60 MW max planned cap capacity factor 42 net generation 220 GW h ref cite web url http www.lorc.dk Knowledge Offshore renewables map Offshore site datasheet Alpha Ventus 000039?lat 54.0202&lon 6.6062 title Datasheet for site Alpha Ventus date year month publisher Lindoe Offshore Renewables Center LORC accessdate 1 June 2011 ref website as of 24 October 2010 Alpha ventus also known as Borkum West is Germany s first offshore wind farm . It is situated in the North Sea convert 45 km north of the island of Borkum . History The application for construction of the wind farm near Borkum was submitted in 1999. The permit was given by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in 2001. In 2007, contracts for supplying wind turbine s were signed with REpower and Areva . At the same year, a contract for construction of the subsea cable connecting the wind farm with the German grid. was signed. Construction of the alpha ventus Electrical substation substation started in July 2008. On July 15, 2009, the first wind turbine was installed and the first six turbines delivered by Areva went operational in August 2009. Installation of another six turbines delivered by REpower started in September ... more details
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