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| 1 | Gouda, South Holland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 52.0111 / 4.7111 | Gouda is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands with a population of 72,338. It is famous for its Gouda cheese, stroopwafels, many grachten, smoking pipes, and its 15th-century city hall (...) | |
| 2 | Amsterdam ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 52.3702 / 4.8904 | Amsterdam is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague (...) | |
| 3 | Netherlands ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 52.35 / 5.7667 | The Netherlands is a country located mainly in Northwestern Europe. Together with three island territories in the Caribbean (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (...) | |
| 4 | Haarlem ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 52.3803 / 4.6406 | Haarlem (; predecessor of Harlem in the English language) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland and is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe. Haarlem had a population of in (...) | |
| 5 | Eurovision Song Contest 1958 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.2333 / 5.1833 | The Eurovision Song Contest 1958 was the third Eurovision Song Contest. The contest took place in Hilversum, Netherlands, following the country's win at the 1957 Contest, forming the convention that the winning country of the previous Eurovision Song Contest hosts the following year's contest (...) | |
| 6 | Railroad switch ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 51.0692 / 6.959 | A railroad switch , turnout, or points is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another, such as at a railway junction or where a spur or siding branches off. The switch consists of the pair of linked tapering rails, known as points (switch rails or point (...) | |
| 7 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 236 Lat/Lng : 48.1385 / 38.6392 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board (...) | |
| 8 | William Joyce ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 53.2769 / -9.0302 | William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born, Anglo-Irish Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He took German citizenship in 1940 (...) | |
| 9 | Amsterdam Sloterdijk station ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.389 / 4.8381 | Amsterdam Sloterdijk is a major railway junction situated to the west of Amsterdam Centraal station. It is at a rail-rail crossing with an additional chord (Hemboog). It is on the railway line from Amsterdam Centraal to Haarlem and the last station before the junction where the line Amsterdam (...) | |
| 10 | Siege of Groenlo (1627) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 52.05 / 6.6167 | The Siege of Grol in 1627 was a battle between the Army of the Dutch Republic commanded by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and the Spanish controlled fortified city of Grol (now known as Groenlo), during the Eighty Years War and the Anglo–Spanish War in 1627 (...) | |
| 11 | Battle of Lowestoft ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 52.05 / 2.4 | The Battle of Lowestoft took place on 13 June (New Style) 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A fleet of more than a hundred ships of the United Provinces commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam attacked an English fleet of equal size commanded by James, Duke of York forty (...) | |
| 12 | Siege of Haarlem ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 52.3833 / 4.6333 | The siege of Haarlem was an episode of the Eighty Years' War. From 11 December 1572 to 13 July 1573 an army of Philip II of Spain laid bloody siege to the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands, whose loyalties had begun wavering during the previous summer (...) | |
| 13 | European maritime exploration of Australia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : -12.2344 / 141.7206 | The maritime European exploration of Australia consisted of several waves of white European seafarers that sailed the edges of the Australian continent. Dutch navigators were the first Europeans known to have explored and mapped the Australian coastline (...) | |
| 14 | Brent Town Hall ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 51.5661 / -0.2736 | Brent Town Hall is a landmark building in Wembley Park in the London Borough of Brent, northwest London, England. The building was completed, as Wembley Town Hall, in 1940. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1990. The building is over 90,000 square feet with a site area of about 5.3 acres (...) | |
| 15 | Dutch public broadcasting system ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 52.224 / 5.171 | The Dutch public broadcasting system is a set of organizations that together take care of public service television and radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. It is composed of a foundation called Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO), which acts as its governing body, and a number of public (...) | |
| 16 | Dutch Church, Austin Friars ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 51.5155 / -0.0856 | The Dutch Church, Austin Friars , is a reformed church in the Broad Street Ward, in the City of London. Located on the site of the 13th-century Augustinian friary, the original building granted to Protestant refugees for their church services in 1550 was destroyed during the London Blitz (...) | |