Rottumerplaat

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The Rottumerplaat is an uninhabited barrier island in the Dutch Wadden Sea. The West Frisian island belonged to the municipality Warffum, which was part of the municipality in the province of Groningen Eemsmond on 1 January 1990.

The island was known after 1971, the writer Jan Wolkers there Godfried Bomans and ever lived a week and her experiences published later.

Location

North of the island, the North Sea is to the Hubertgat, south of the Wadden Sea and the Boschgat, to the west is the West Frisian island of Schiermonnikoog and east of the dune island Rottumeroog. The Rottumerplaat represents the northernmost point of the Netherlands

History

The Rottumerplaat is about 1833 emerged originally as a sandbank. By 1860 the site Rottumerplaat was baptized. In 1950 the Rijkswaterstaat put on a dyke, as it was planned as a base for the further damming of the Wadden Sea. As Rottumeroog the Rottumerplaat shifts further to the east. From 1965 to 1985, the island had grown to 900 acres, which is now a stabilization has occurred. In the last ten years, numerous dunes in the northeast of the island also emerged.

The Rottummerplaat is uninhabited and access is prohibited. It is managed by the Rijkswaterstaat, State Forestry and the Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit. In 1991 it was decided that Rottumeroog and Rottumerplaat may be entered only twice a year.

Fauna

The Rottumerplaat, as well Rottumeroog, an important resting place for the Sanderling (Calidris alba), the Alpine beach runners (Calidris alpina) and the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus ). There is a breeding area for eiders (Somateria mollissima), Shelduck (Tadorna Tadorna ), Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea ), Common Tern (Sterna hirundo ), Little Tern (Sterna albifrons ) and Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula ). From 1996, we also had the rare sandwich tern (Sterna sandvicensis ) observed, but for some years it has disappeared.

Godfried Bomans and Jan Wolkers

On the island there is a hut for bird observatory. 1971 Godfried Bomans spent the writer and Jan Wolkers one week than birders; Bomans from 10 to 17 July and Wolkers from 17 to July 24. Their only contact with the outside world was a daily radio contact with the VARA Leaders Willem Ruis. Wolker recorded his experiences in the book Groeten van Rottumerplaat (1971). The Diary of Bomans appeared under the name Op rice rond de Wereld en op Rottumerplaat (1972) and Dagboek van Rottumerplaat (1988).