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    Hel Peninsula (Polish pronunciation: [xɛl] ; Polish: Mierzeja Helska, Półwysep Helski; Kashubian: Hélskô Sztremlëzna; German: Halbinsel Hela or Putziger...
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  • up Hel or hel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hel or HEL may refer to: Hel Peninsula, on the Polish Baltic coast Hel, Poland, a town on the Hel Peninsula...
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    Hel (Kashubian: Hél; German: Hela) is a seaside resort city in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, located on the tip of the Hel...
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    historiography as the September Campaign). The defense of the Hel Peninsula took place around the Hel Fortified Area, a system of Polish fortifications that...
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    the Hel Peninsula. The bay has an average depth of 2 m (7 ft) to 6 m (20 ft). There is a shallow sand-bank from Rewa to Kuźnica in the middle of Hel Peninsula...
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  • Hel Peninsula, Poland Heracles Peninsula, disputed between Ukraine and Russia Kerch Peninsula, disputed between Ukraine and Russia Karpass Peninsula,...
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    The Hel Fortified Area (Polish: Rejon Umocniony Hel) was a set of Polish fortifications, constructed on the Hel Peninsula in northern Poland, in close...
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    Hel Peninsula) and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia (Sambian Peninsula). The coast of the bay features two very long sandspits, the Hel peninsula and...
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    resort in northern Poland, located on the Hel Peninsula in a forested area between the towns of Jastarnia and Hel in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship...
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  • Minckenbeck, after which a Danish landing party landed on and penetrated into Hel Peninsula without resistance. On the same day Dano-Norwegian ships entered the...
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    of 70 km (43 mi) twice as long as the better known and more populous Hel Peninsula in the western part of the Gdańsk Bay. The Vistula Spit stretches in...
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    Fryderyk Getkant designed a fort called Władysławowo located on the Hel Peninsula, several kilometers east of today's town of Władysławowo. It was officially...
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    The Reda–Hel railway is a 62-kilometre-long (39 mi) Polish railway line, that connects the Hel Peninsula with Reda and Gdynia. The railway is located...
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    connecting the Hel to the mainland until 9 September 1939. Unrug had about 2,000 men under his control in the Hel. The narrow Hel peninsula was a natural...
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    Gdynia to Hel Peninsula, from where they were to start the so-called Operation Rurka. The plan was to lay a naval mine barrier between Hel Peninsula and Danzig...
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    taking aboard naval mines from a floating depot, the flotilla headed for Hel Peninsula, assisted by ORP Wicher and two gunboats. En route she was attacked...
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    at the eastern tip of the Hel Peninsula and guides ship traffic into Gdańsk Bay and the Bay of Puck. The lighthouse on Hel has its origins in the 16th...
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    immobile soldiers. On 16 April 1945, Goya was sailing from Hel, around the Hel Peninsula and across the Baltic Sea to Kiel in western Germany. The convoy...
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    County, Pomeranian Voivodship, northern Poland. It is located on the Hel Peninsula on the Baltic Sea. It is a popular Polish seaside resort and small fishing...
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    De Hel Nature Area is a 21.3-hectare (53-acre) nature reserve protecting a river valley and indigenous forest on the lower eastern slopes of Table Mountain...
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    Strait of Gallipoli (after the Gallipoli peninsula) and in Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (/ˈhɛlɪspɒnt/ HEL-isp-ont; Classical Greek: Ἑλλήσποντος...
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    Jastarnia, 18 km (11 mi) east of Puck, and Hel, 29 km (18 mi) east of Puck, at the tip of the Hel Peninsula. The county covers an area of 577.85 square...
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    Presidential Residence "Jurata-Hel" in Hel, the president's Baltic coastal retreat Summer residence at the Hel Peninsula Presidential Villa in Promnik...
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    Władysławowo. It is situated between Władysławowo and Kuźnica on the Hel Peninsula on the southern Baltic Sea in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern...
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    Pelplin) and the Malbork Castle. The voivodeship also includes the narrow Hel Peninsula and the Polish half of the Vistula Spit. Other tourist destinations...
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  • fortress, MSK was used in the occupation of Gdynia and in the battle of Hel peninsula. MSK remained active for the rest of World War II, mainly on the Eastern...
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    Westerplatte, Sucharski radioed the nearby Polish military base on the Hel Peninsula, "SOS: I'm under fire.": 12  Other sources indicate the shot was fired...
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    of Polish Navy (Baza Techniczna Marynarki Wojennej) Hel Peninsula Naval Base (Punkt Bazowania Hel) Flotylla Okrętów "..:: :: Aktualności ::." wp.mil.pl...
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    the Polish Navy, and fought in defence of the Hel Peninsula, repelling air attacks on the port of Hel, and ensuring the maintenance of communication...
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    Helston (redirect from Hellys)
    Written Form: Hellys) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately...
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