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View from station building down to 'Wasserturm'

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Blick vom Bahnhofsgebäude Richtung Wasserturm

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Further information about Langeoog

Langeoog is one of the seven inhabited East Frisian Islands at the edge of the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea in the southern North Sea, located between Baltrum Island (west), and Spiekeroog (east). It is also a municipality in the district of Wittmund in Lower Saxony, Germany. The name 'Langeoog' means 'Long Island' in the Low German dialect. Geography: Langeoog's beach is 14 km long. Langeoog's actual size depends on the level of tide, which sinks and falls about 2.5 m in 6 hours. Fresh water, where salt water is all around: Langeoog is - seen with the geologist's eye - nothing but sand. Rain water which drips into the sand has a lower density than saltwater, which makes a kind of fresh water bubble float over the saltwater around and deep under the island. The beach and the dunes are eroded by the sea in the western part of the Island. In the last 50 years Langeoogs western end has moved several hundred meters to the east. Things like this happen on every East Frisian island - some islands ... Read more about Langeoog on Wikipedia

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