[2] Sediment deposition has caused the island to become significantly larger in recent years.

[1] Access to the island is prohibited since Rottumerplaat is a resting and forage area for numerous bird species.

[4] Rottumerplaat is a resting and forage area for sanderling, dunlin and Kentish plovers.

[1] For Godfried Bomans, the stay on the island was a disaster; he could not cope with the noise the many seagulls made and he was troubled by loneliness.

Jan Wolkers however experienced his stay on the island as an adventure and kept himself alive by catching shrimps and eel, and boiling sea sandwort.