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What pulls the island's old lifeboat into the sea, what are its ferries named after, and which title does the Dutch king hold here? Ten questions about Ameland.
Wave watcher 0–4 · Lifeboat crew 5–8 · Island legend 9–10
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Holwert lies on the Frisian coast and is also home to a training centre for mudflat hiking guides. The village started on a terp, a man-made mound that kept homes dry.
Photo: Gouwenaar, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Ten strong horses drag the lifeboat through the breaking waves, just as rescuers did for real from 1824 onwards. In the old days the crew ran to fetch the horses from the fields as soon as the alarm sounded.
Photo: Adrian Pingstone ( User:Arpingstone ), Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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The lighthouse is more than 50 metres tall, with 236 steps to the top. Its iron sections were made on the mainland, shipped over around 1880 and put together on the spot.
Photo: Simone, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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From west to east they are Hollum, Ballum, Nes and Buren. Nes is the busy tourist village where the ferry arrives.
Photo: TomAlt, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Sand dunes slowly crept over Sier, and the last house was left around 1730. The island's other ferry is named after another vanished village.
Photo: Carsten Steger, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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For centuries Ameland was a 'free lordship' that ruled itself, not part of Holland or Friesland. The title later passed to the Princes of Orange, and King Willem-Alexander still uses it.
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The 8.7 km dyke ran from Holwert to Buren, but winter storms kept breaking it. Repairs stopped in 1882, and parts of it still show up at low tide.
Photo: Indolences, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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In the 1700s many Ameland men sailed to the Arctic. The commanders of the whaling ships built these homes with the money they earned.
Photo: dronepicr, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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Ballum is the smallest of Ameland's villages, yet it has the airfield. Long ago the lords of Ameland also lived there, in a castle.
Photo: misaltas, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Wind and sea keep adding sand to the Oerd, and more than 60 kinds of birds are seen there every year. At its far end lies a wide beach plain called the Hon.
Photo: Himarerme, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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