Hel Poland 🇵🇱

The Battle of Hel at the Hel Peninsula, including the town of Hel at the peninsula's tip, was the pocket of Polish Army resistance that held out longest against the German invasion in World War II. Some 2,800 soldiers of Counter Admiral Włodzimierz Steyer's Hel Fortified Region unit, part of the Land Coastal Defence formation, defended the region from 9 September to 2 October 1939, when they surrendered.b The Germans contained the pocket and did not launch any major land operations until the end of September.

The Seal Sanctuary in Hel (Fokarium w Helu) is a public aquarium in the town of Hel at the Polish seaside of the Baltic Sea.

Hel Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in the town of Hel, Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is situated at the eastern tip of the Hel Peninsula and guides ship traffic into Gdańsk Bay and the Bay of Puck.