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Heligoland
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Definition:a small German archipelago in the North Sea. The islands were at one time Danish and later British possessions.Heligoland is now a holiday resort and enjoys a tax-exempt status, as it is part of the EU but excluded from the EU VAT area and customs union. Consequently, much of the economy is founded on sales of cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and perfume to tourists who visit the islands.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Why am I not entitled to a shipping forecast? I may not be going as far as Fisher, German Bight, but are such things as Cromarty, Dogger and Heligoland strictly reserved for special sailors?
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: What to Wear when Yachting (1992)
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The nation and the Salinas Valley changed its songs. At first we sang of how we would knock the hell out of Helgoland and hang the Kaiser and march over there and clean up the mess them damn foreigners had made. And then suddenly we sang, “In the war’s red curse stands the Red Cross nurse. She’s the rose of No Man’s Land,”
John Steinbeck. East of Eden, p.481 (1952)
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As treeless as Portugal we’ll be soon, says John Wyse, or Heligoland with its one tree if something is not done to reafforest the land.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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