Den Helder

Den Helder is the northernmost vicinity and municipality on the mainland of the Dutch province of Noord-Holland. The municipality is located in the Kop van Noord-Holland or Noordkop region. To the north-west of the town lies the Noorderhaaks sandbank, to the north the Marsdiep with the island of Texel on the alternative facet and the sizeable wadden plateau Balgzand to the east. The municipality has 55,six hundred population on an area of ​​178.83 km², of which 133.42 km² are water.

About 41,000 people live in the town itself. In the early Middle Ages, the territory of the modern-day municipality of Den Helder belonged to the Gouw Texla. The oldest center of the cutting-edge municipality is Huisduinen, whose oldest point out dates lower back to the mid 9th century. After major typhoon floods on the give up of the 12th century, Huisduinen and Callantsoog, located to the south, remained in the back of as islands. In the wadden area east of Huisduinen, excessive sand hills had been created that remained dry at excessive tide.