Eidum on the island of Sylt was destroyed, its inhabitants left and founded the village of Westerland as a result.
With Hampdens, the Whitley made the first bombing raid on German soil on the night of 19/20 March 1940, attacking the Hornum seaplane base on the Island of Sylt.
Denghoog is an ancient monument dating from 3000 BC near Wenningstedt-Braderup on the German Island of Sylt.
Early 19th century literature includes a comedy in Söl'ring, the dialect of Sylt island, and a novel by the same author Jap Peter Hansen, Di lekkelk Stjüürman The lucky helmsman.
In the 1950s, the HADAG operated a ferry to England and to the islands Heligoland and Sylt.
He died on 7 November 2002 from pneumonia and was buried on the island of Sylt.
A cliffed coast is made of a loose bedrock material, such as at the Red Cliff on the German island of Sylt, but can also occur in hard rock like the red sandstone cliffs on Heligoland.
Captain Dirk Meinhertz Hahn (born Westerland, Sylt) was probably best known as the captain of the ship Zebra that he captained to South Australia where the town of Hahndorf was named after him.
Coronel moved on by stages to Sylt, Dunkirk and Calais and on 10 February successfully ran the gauntlet of the coastal artillery at Dover.
Jochen Bleicken (3 September 1926 in Westerland, Sylt – 24 February 2005 in Hamburg) was a German professor of ancient history.
This was followed on 7/8 March 1940 by the first bombing mission, when one Hampden, during a security patrol of Sylt-Borkum-Norderney, bombed an enemy destroyer which opened fire on it.
NOB operates two classes of diesel-electric locomotives, both on the section between Hamburg and Sylt: the Di 6 (DE 2700) and the Eurorunner (DE 2000).
A year later the subhunting component of MFG 2 moved from Westerland on Sylt to Nordholz.
Westerland, Germany, a town on the island Sylt, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany