Heligoland
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Heligoland is a small archipelago in the North Sea, administratively part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The islands are located in the Heligoland Bight in the southeastern corner of the N
Aerial image of Heligoland
Panoramic view over Heligoland from the highest point
Aerial photograph showing new fortifications in 1919
Heligoland about 1929–1930
Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty
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The Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty was an agreement signed on 1 July 1890 between Germany and the United Kingdom.
Heligoland
…discomforts of a large and busy population, and of an air that tastes like draughts of life itself." Britain ceded the islands to Germany in 1890 in the Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty. The newly unified Germany was concerned about a foreign power controlling land from which it could command the western entrance to the militarily-important…
Handover ceremony on Heligoland, 10 August 1890
Imperial German Postal Agency in Zanzibar with its staff (1890)
German soldiers celebrating infront of an English barrack (1891)