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What can't you bring on the ferry, what happened to the island's second village, and which Australian animals did a Vlieland captain mistake for rats? Ten questions about Vlieland.
Day visitor 0–4 · Dune explorer 5–8 · Vlieland islander 9–10
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Visitors leave their cars on the mainland, so the island is wonderfully quiet. Most people get around by bike on the many cycle paths.
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The crossing from the Frisian port of Harlingen takes between 45 minutes and an hour and a half. Den Helder, in North Holland, has ferries to a different island.
Photo: S.Möller, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Vlieland is mostly dunes, with some woods and small meadows. The western part of the island is a huge, wide plain of sand.
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Vlieland belonged to North Holland for a long time. In 1942 it was moved to Friesland together with Terschelling, and it stayed there after the war.
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Floods and erosion slowly ate away the western end of the island. After decades of trying to rebuild, the villagers gave up in 1736, and Oost-Vlieland is now the only village.
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Vlieland and Terschelling lie on either side of the Vlie, the sea channel that gave Vlieland its name. In summer a fast catamaran hops between them.
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The top of a lighthouse from IJmuiden was moved to Vlieland in 1909. It stands on one of the highest dunes in the Netherlands, about 45 metres high, so it shines far out to sea.
Photo: Klaus Welsing ( Kgw ), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The Vliehors Express drives over the sand to meet a summer boat from De Cocksdorp on Texel. The Vliehors is one of the largest sand plains in north-west Europe, and part of it is used for air force training.
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In 1696 de Vlamingh saw lots of small furry animals and thought they were giant rats. They were quokkas, small relatives of the kangaroo, and the island is still called Rottnest Island.
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St. Lucia's flood struck in December 1287 and flooded large parts of the Netherlands and northern Germany. It was one of the biggest floods in recorded history.
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