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Veluwezoom National Park is a national park in the Netherlands located in the province of Gelderland.It is the oldest national park in the Netherlands. [2] It has a surface area of about 50 square kilometers (some 20 square miles) at the southeastern edge of the Veluwe, a complex of terminal push moraines from the Saalian glaciation.
De Hoge Veluwe National Park (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈɦoːɣə ˈveːlyʋə]; "The High Veluwe") is a Dutch national park in the province of Gelderland near the cities of Ede, Wageningen, Arnhem and Apeldoorn. It is approximately 55 km 2 (14,000 acres; 21 sq mi) in area, consisting of heathlands, sand dunes, and woodlands.
The Veluwe is the largest push moraine complex in the Netherlands, stretching 60 km (40 miles) from north to south, and reaching heights of up to 110 metres (360'). The Veluwe was formed by the Saalian glacial during the Pleistocene epoch, some 200,000 years ago. Glaciers some 200 metres (600') thick pushed the sand deposits in the Rhine and ...
Helene Müller and Anton Kröller, ca. 1888. The Kröller-Müller Museum was founded by Helene Kröller-Müller, an avid art collector who, being advised by H.P. Bremmer, was one of the first to recognize Vincent van Gogh's genius and collect his works.
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De Zoom–Kalmthoutse Heide Cross-Border Park: North Brabant, Antwerp : 3,750 ha: 2001 De Loonse en Drunense Duinen National Park: North Brabant: 3,400 ha: 2002 De Groote Peel National Park: Limburg, North Brabant: 1,340 ha: 1993 De Maasduinen National Park: Limburg: 4,200 ha: 1996 De Meinweg National Park: Limburg: 1,700 ha: 1995 Nieuw Land ...
Christiaan de Wet monument, Hoge Veluwe, the Netherlands. De Wet distinguished himself in the Second Boer War and earned a reputation for bravery in the many battles that he fought in that conflict. [21] In the early 1920s, Irish republican leader Michael Collins was called "the Irish de Wet" by the British press. [22]
Her entire collection was eventually sold to the Dutch government, along with her and her husband, Anton Kröller's, large forested country estate. Today it is the Kröller-Müller Museum and sculpture garden and Hoge Veluwe National Park, one of the largest national parks in the Netherlands. [2]