Everything about German Bight totally explained
German Bight (; ; ; ) is the south-eastern
bight of the
North Sea bounded by the
Netherlands and
Germany to the south, and
Denmark and Germany to the east (the
Jutland peninsula). To the north and west it's limited by the
Dogger Bank. The bight contains the
Frisian and
Danish Islands. The Frisian islands and the nearby coastal areas are collectively known as
Frisia. The southern portion of the bight is also known as the
Heligoland Bight. Between 1949 and 1956 the
BBC Sea Area Forecast (Shipping Forecast) used "
Heligoland" as the designation for the area known as the German Bight.
Popular Culture
In the book
A Kestrel for a Knave and its film version,
Kes, the shipping forecast is featured in the classroom register roll call when lead character Billy Casper calls out "German Bight" after the teacher reads out the name of a pupil called Fisher. (Author
Barry Hines erroneously has Billy then say that Cromarty follows German Bight.)
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