Frisian Islands

Born in Joure, Friesland—the northern province of Netherlands which includes part of the Frisian Islands—in 1906, Spanninga was a journalist and a publicist in the town Sneek for much of his life.

Sjoerd Spanninga [Jan Dijkstra] greenintegerblog 2008

But, as you see, these sands are intersected here and there by channels, very shallow and winding, exactly like those behind the Frisian Islands.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

'You know what I was saying about the Frisian Islands the other day?

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

Those are the Frisian Islands, and they stretch for 120 miles or so eastward.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

The Frisian Islands were an extravagant absurdity now.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

I came out here via Holland and the Frisian Islands, starting early in August.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

'I lived for ten days on a big rye loaf over in the Frisian Islands.'

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

A LOW line of sandhills, pink and fawn in the setting sun, at one end of them a little white village huddled round the base of a massive four-square lighthouse — such was Wangeroog, the easternmost of the Frisian Islands, as I saw it on the evening of 15th October.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

His voyage single-handed to the Baltic from the Frisian Islands had been a foolhardy enterprise, with perilous incidents, which, rather than make light of, he would not refer to at all.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

And, in addition, there are those Frisian Islands, and East Friesland, and that dangerous wedge that Germany drives into Holland along the

The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various