The Germans had suffered unexpectedly small damage and losses: Scharnhorst hit two mines, off Flushing and Ameland, but arrived safely at 10:00 on 13 February at Wilhelmshaven (the damage took three months to repair).
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Ballum is a village on the western half of the island of Ameland and the smallest of the total of four villages on the island, one of the West Frisian Islands and part of the Netherlands.
Buren is the eastern-most village on the island of Ameland, one of the West Frisian Islands and part of the Netherlands.
The only plan ever to be carried out was the construction of a causeway from the Frisian Holwerd to Ameland, in 1872, which was not very successful.
Nes is the second largest village on the island of Ameland, one of the West Frisian Islands in the northern Netherlands.