Hook of Holland

( Listen / i?) Hoek van Holland (literally Corner of Holland ) is now a suburb of Rotterdam, but has the character of a small coastal town and seaside resort preserved. It is located in South Holland at the mouth of the Nieuwe Waterway opened in 1872, the 20 km long waterway linking the North Sea with the port of Rotterdam. Nearby towns include Monster, 's- Gravenzande and Naaldwijk in the northwest and Maassluis in the southeast. On the other side of the river lie the Europoort and Maasvlakte.

Hoek van Holland covers an area of 16.7 km ²; of which 13.92 km ² mainland. On 1 January 1999, the site had about 9,400 inhabitants.

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Hoek van Holland was and is one of the main ferry ports on the connection from mainland Europe to the UK. The passenger station was right at the ferry terminal, therefore, for decades the goal of long-distance trains from Central Europe as the Berlin-London Express, Rheingold, the Austria - Express or the Holland Scandinavia Express.

On February 21, 1907 sank in a heavy storm on the North Mole, the British passenger ship Berlin; 168 people died in the accident.

The place has next to the rail connection is also a direct motorway link as part of the European Route 30 Currently, there are two direct ferry (one day or night ferry) with Stena Line to Harwich in Essex, England and a Lastwagenfährverbindung after Killingholme in Lincolnshire, England.

A local of the RET ferry represents a regular connection with the port of Rotterdam