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On 19 March 2015 at 13:20, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
> I've always known them as navigational markers.
>
> At sea we call them seamarks (as opposed to "Landmarks"). I'm not sure
> what they're called on rivers.
>
> If they float then they're bouys, if they're fixed then they're beacons.
>
> The closest translation for this particular type - on an inland river, and
> fixed - would probably be a navigational beacon.
>
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> Richard Symonds
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> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
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> On 19 March 2015 at 12:57, Charles Matthews <
> charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
wrote:
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>> Does anyone of the messing-around-in-boats persuasion have an English
>> translation for this German term, meaning a waterway sign on a pile?
>>
>>
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiffe
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>> Charles
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