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- proper noun A chain of islands in the
North Sea , belonging to theNetherlands , part of the Frisian Islands.
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The majority of steamers, trawlers, and fully seaworthy vessels left from the Heligoland Bight, travelled along the coast past the West Frisian Islands, Den Helder, and Hook of Holland, and then either sailed into the Dutch estuaries or continued past Flushing to Ostend,
Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958
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[The Hoofden area is a sector of the North Sea bounded, on the one side, by the Dover Straits and, on the other, by a line from Cromer in East Anglia to Terschelling, one of the West Frisian Islands.]
Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958
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