German Bight

The German Bight ( German : Deutsche Bucht, Frisian : Dútske Bend, Danish : Tyske Bugt) is the southeastern part of the North Sea .

The German Bight is bordered by Dutch and German Wadden islands in the south and the Danish peninsula of Jutland in the east. In the north and west is the Dogger Bank, the boundary of the German Bight.

The German Bight is on the continental shelf . The part of the German Bight southwest of Helgoland is also known as the Bight of Heligoland. Here the sea to 56 meters deep.

Along the southern part of the German Bight is the busy shipping route between the mouth of the Elbe and the Pas de Calais .

The Sylter outer reef is part of the German Bight.

Depression [ edit ]
The German Bight is regularly on the route of depressions that come to the Netherlands from Iceland, Scotland and Denmark, as the storm that the floods of 1953 caused. TheSt. Elisabeth Flood (1421) and the All Saints flood (1570) came from the German Bight to the Netherlands.