Formerly Danish and British possession, Heligoland is a small German archipelago (two islands) located in the Heligoland Bight in the southeastern corner of the North Sea, the only German islands not in the immediate vicinity of the mainland (at 46km off the coastline). In addition to German, the local population (1,127) ), who are ethnic Frisians, speak the Heligolandic dialect of the North Frisian language called Halunder.
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