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    IJmuiden (Dutch pronunciation: [ɛiˈmœydə(n)]) is a port city in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is the main town in the municipality of Velsen...
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    1918. Since 2010, the plant is named Tata Steel IJmuiden. The IJmuiden steelworks based in IJmuiden, Netherlands was built between 1920 and 1940, first...
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  • The IJmuiden sea lock (Dutch: zeesluis IJmuiden) serving Port of Amsterdam via the North Sea Canal is the largest lock in the world when considering dimensions...
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    Fort IJmuiden is a former fort, now heritage site and event location in IJmuiden North-Holland. It protected the entrance to the North Sea Canal. The...
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    IJmuiden Heliport (ICAO: EHYP), sometimes referred to as YPAD, is a small helipad located in the harbour area of the city of IJmuiden in the Dutch province...
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    there is a major steel plant, Tata Steel IJmuiden, formerly known as Koninklijke Hoogovens (the town of IJmuiden is actually located south of the canal)...
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  • Sportclub Telstar (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈspɔrtklʏp ˈtɛlstɑr]) is a Dutch professional association football club based in the town of Velsen-Zuid, North...
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    The hoge vuurtoren van IJmuiden ("high lighthouse of IJmuiden") is a round, cast-iron lighthouse in IJmuiden, Netherlands, designed by Quirinus Harder...
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    off the coast of IJmuiden. After her active career she was rebuilt into a stationary battery ship and renamed Batterijschip IJmuiden and recommissioned...
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    Noordzeekanaal) is a Dutch ship canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring vessels to reach...
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  • College Cardinals and the Bradley Braves. Leons was born and raised in IJmuiden by Iwan and Monique Leons and played in the youth academy of Apollo Amsterdam...
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    The Lage vuurtoren van IJmuiden ("low lighthouse of IJmuiden") is a round, cast-iron lighthouse in IJmuiden, Netherlands, designed by Quirinus Harder....
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    HNLMS IJmuiden (M842) is the sixth ship in the City / Vlissingen-class mine countermeasures vessels, and third to be built for the Royal Netherlands Navy...
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    a diminuitive of Lekkerbek meaning Gourmand. Lekkerbekje originated in IJmuiden. Lekkerbekje consists of a fish fried in batter and deep fried similar...
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  • offices in IJmuiden. Currently in the library of the Zee- en Haven Museum there. The SHV managed the transport of coal ("Steenkool") in the IJmuiden harbour...
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    Newcastle upon Tyne, (being 6 miles to the east of the city), England to IJmuiden in the Netherlands. She was built in 1987 as MS Nils Holgersson by Seebeckwerft...
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  • Nieborg from IJmuiden started the Gratis Advertentieblad voor IJmuiden, de Heide, Velsen en Omstreken (English: Free advert paper for IJmuiden, de Heide...
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    company DFDS Seaways on a route connecting North Shields, England, to IJmuiden in the Netherlands. She was built in 1986 as Peter Pan by Seebeckwerft...
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    observers on the ground. The first Disney attack was against the port of IJmuiden, Netherlands. This was the site of two separate fortified pens used by...
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    the Waddensea, and the beach of Wassenaar. Its headquarters have been in IJmuiden since 1996. The KNRM was created May 22, 1991 by merging the Koninklijke...
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    so-called “Fortress IJmuiden,” (Festung IJmuiden in German.) The purpose of the Fortress IJmuiden was to protect the port of IJmuiden and the nearby steelworks...
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    North Holland province, the Netherlands. It is between the beaches of IJmuiden to the north and Zandvoort to the south and surrounded by the dunes of...
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  • in stages and with pauses at Koninklijke Hoogovens / Corus IJmuiden / Tata Steel IJmuiden, starting in 1986. The final stages were made possible through...
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  • ESTEL) was a steel company formed by the merging of Koninklijke Hoogovens IJmuiden steel plant and Hoesch's main steel plant in Dortmund. The company existed...
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  • was the Belgian contestant "Djoels". The second season takes place in IJmuiden and was won by Belgian contestant Joyce. The spin-off series Ink Master:...
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    both targets IJmuiden 8 February 1945 15 Lancasters of 617 Squadron dropped Tallboys on the "U-boat pens at IJmuiden" without loss IJmuiden 10 February...
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    thus these helipads are not included in this list. The Maasvlakte and IJmuiden helipads are restricted to maritime piloting services and are not connected...
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    Victoria Australia The Orisant a trailing suction dredger in the port of IJmuiden, Netherlands Grab dredging in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Alexander von...
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    Hitler declared eleven major ports as fortresses on 19 January 1944: IJmuiden, the Hook of Holland, Dunkirk, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Le Havre, Cherbourg, Saint-Malo...
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    Canal sluice gates at IJmuiden, in the former "buizengieterij" (pipe making factory) of Koninklijke Hoogovens, now Tata Steel IJmuiden, on the Buizenweg in...
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