Wadden Sea
Nature
A sea you can walk across twice a day.
The Wadden Sea lies between the mainland and a chain of islands, along the coast of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. Twice a day the tide pulls the water away and leaves a huge plain of sand and mud.
It is the largest area of its kind in the world. Millions of birds stop here on their long journeys to eat worms and shellfish from the mud, and seals rest on the sandbanks.
- countries
- 3
- a day it falls dry
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- World Heritage since
- 2009
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With a guide you can walk across the seabed to an island at low tide. The Dutch call it wadlopen.
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A handful of mud is full of tiny animals: that is what the birds come for.
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The islands are slowly moving: the sea takes sand away on one side and lays it down on the other.
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