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Memmert
thumb|A view of Memmert from the North thumb|Aerial view of Memmert from the south
Lütje Hörn
East Frisian Island
Mellum
Mellum () is an uninhabited island lying southeast of Wangerooge, off the coastal settlements of Horumersiel and Schillig in Germany.
Kachelotplate
The Kachelotplate () is a sandbar in the North Sea. It lies near the German coast, west of the island of Juist. Since 2003, enough stays above high tide that it can be called an island. Grass and dunes are settling there.
Nigehörn
Nigehörn () is an uninhabited artificial island in the North Sea belonging to the German city of Hamburg.
Scharhörn
Scharhörn () is an uninhabited island in the North Sea belonging to the city of Hamburg, Germany. The once most important daymark on the North Sea coast, the Scharhörnbake, was maintained here by the City of Hamburg from 1440 to 1979.
Düne
Düne (; ; ) is one of two islands in the German Bight that form the Archipelago of Heligoland, the other being Heligoland proper.
Minsener Oog
island of Germany
Trischen
thumb|left|180px|The island of Trischen with the mouth of the river Elbe. thumb|Trischen is still shown as Busch Sand on a 1906 map
Walfisch
thumb|Map of the Bay of Wismar Walfisch () is an uninhabited German island, in the Bay of Mecklenburg in the Baltic Sea. It lies approximately north of the city of Wismar, south of the island of Poel. The island is very flat and has a maximum circumference of about , a surface area of and is a nature reserve. thumb|
Blauort
thumb|Map of Meldorf Bay with Blauort in the north; south of it lie Tertius (island)|Tertius and [[Trischen]] thumb|Blauort looking roughly southwest. On the left a channel marker (Pricke) can be made out which marks the Norderpiep channel. Blauort () is one of Germany's uninhabited North Sea sandy islets off the coast of Dithmarschen (near Büsum), and measures about 1,200 m from north to south and 500 metres from east to west. It is surrounded by the sandbank of Blauortsand, which is bounded to the north by the creek of the Wesselburener Loch and to the south by the Piep.
Langlütjen
thumb|Aerial view of Langlütjen I (2012) thumb|The island Langlütjen II (2013) Langlütjen () is the name of the two uninhabited artificial islands created in the 19th century, Langlütjen I and Langlütjen II, north off the coast of the district Wesermarsch in Lower Saxony, Germany. The islands are administered by the town of Nordenham. Their size is 16,000 and 17,000 square metres, respectively.
Barther Oie
island
Fährinsel
thumb|Fährinsel (background) seen from the west, September 2009 Fährinsel () is a small Baltic Sea island off the eastern shore of the island of Hiddensee and which belongs to the Insel Hiddensee municipality. It is separated from Hiddensee by the narrow Bäk, only 120 metres wide in places. It forms the western part of the border between the Schaproder Bodden and the Vitter Bodden. The island is 1.23 km long and up to 580 metres wide. It has an area of ca. 37 ha. Ferry services between Rügen and Hiddensee used to run via Fährinsel. It was closed in 1952 when the port at Schaprode was
Graswerth
thumb|300px|Bendorfer Brücke 02 Koblenz 2014
Beuchel
Beuchel () is a tiny, uninhabited island in the Neuendorfer Wiek bay of the German island of Rügen, and is only a little over a hundred metres off Rügen. It measures roughly 400 by 100 metres, and has an area of 7 ha (approximately 17. acres). The kidney-shaped island is flat and treeless.
Langenwerder
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Urkevitz
Urkevitz () is an uninhabited German island in the Baltic Sea. It lies in between the islands of Rügen and Ummanz and is less than 100 metres from the latter. The island is about 1,000 metres long, up to 300 metres wide and up to 5 metres above sea level. It is located in the Western Pomeranian Lagoon Area National Park.
Ahrendsberg
Ahrendsberg () is an uninhabited island, in area, near the island of Poel in the Breitling, a strait off the Bay of Wismar on the Baltic coast of Germany.
Gänsewerder
Gänsewerder is a tiny uninhabited German island in the Schaproder Bodden, a lagoon on the Baltic Sea coast, 400 metres east of the Gellen Peninsula on Hiddensee. It is part of the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park and is out of bounds to the public. The surface of Gänsewerder is flat, sandy and damp, and only reeds and small plants grow there. There is a small pond in the northeast of the island. The island has an oval shape and slopes along its longer axis from southwest to northeast. It measures about 328 by 155 metres and has an area of some 4 hectares. When the national park was
Triboldingerbohl
Triboldingerbohl, also known as Triboltingen or großes Bohl or Langenrain, is the fourth largest island of Lake Constance, with an area of . It is long and up to wide. It is located in the easternmost part of the Untersee (Lake Constance), near the point where the Seerhein flows into the lake. This part of the lake is also known as the Rheinsee. It belongs to the Wollmatinger Ried nature conservation area; administratively it belongs to the district industrial area of the City of Constance. Until 1934, it belonged to the municipality of Wollmatingen, which was then annexed by Constance. Tribol
Kirr
Kirr () is an island in the Darss-Zingst Bodden Chain south of the Zingst Peninsula on the German Baltic Sea coast. It is separated from the peninsula by the Zingster Strom. The island is a nature reserve within the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park. It was formerly and is sometimes still called Großer Kirr or Große Kirr ("Great Kirr"). This is to distinguish it from the northwestern part of the island, which was still a separate albeit much smaller island in the Zingster Strom in the second half of the 20th century, that used to be called Kleiner Kirr or Kleine Kirr ("Small Kirr").
Liebes
Liebes () is a small, uninhabited island in the Baltic Sea, in the lagoon of Varbelvitzer Bodden between the islands of Rügen and Ummanz. It is a good 1,000 metres long, up to 200 metres wide and its highest point lies just 1.5 metres above sea level. The name of the island could be derived from the Slavic word lipa, meaning "lime tree".
Liebitz
Liebitz () is a German island in the lagoon of Kubitzer Bodden about 700 metres west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It belongs to the municipality of Dreschvitz.