Amrum Island

Amrum is a North Frisian island with dunes and heath on its sandy ground, a broad western beach facing the North Sea, and tidal flats along its eastern shore. Frisian settlers arrived in the early Middle Ages, and the island appears in King Valdemar II's census book of 1231. Islanders combined fishing and agriculture with salt-making and seafaring. After struggles over Schleswig, Amrum and western Föhr remained Danish enclaves beside the duchy.