{"id":3983,"date":"2016-03-26T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2019-08-10T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T12:23:44","slug":"another-weird-island-in-dutch-waters-forteiland-pampus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/another-weird-island-in-dutch-waters-forteiland-pampus\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Weird Island In Dutch Waters &#8211; Forteiland Pampus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4122\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-33.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4122\" aria-label=\"Screenshot 33 300x295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4122\" class=\" wp-image-4122\"  alt=\"And who made this? What is it exactly? (Image: Google Maps)\" width=\"263\" height=\"259\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-33-300x295.png\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And who made this? What is it? (Image: Google Maps)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another weird island in\u00a0Dutch waters! Previously, I talked about the weird &#8220;eye&#8221; in the IJsselmeer, the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-ijsseloog-made-by-dutch-hands\/\">IJsseloog<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have discovered that there is another such a weird island in the Netherlands! It is a weird oval, in the middle of the IJmeer, with a weird grey oval on top of it&#8230;\u00a0 Who made this island, now? Aliens this time? No? Still not? Then who made\u00a0it, and why?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/tag\/strange-places\/\"><strong>For other posts in the series <em>Strange Places<\/em> in the Netherlands, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forteiland Pampus in the IJmeer (4K)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_7dD1kX0-Fw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0<em>Forteiland Pampus<\/em> (Fort Island Pampus)!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Now, what is this little island doing there, all alone in the <em>IJmeer<\/em>?<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">1. How it got there<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_4121\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-32.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4121\" aria-label=\"Screenshot 32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4121\" class=\" wp-image-4121\"  alt=\"Forteiland Pampus in the IJmeer (Created with Google Maps, 2016)\" width=\"535\" height=\"289\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-32.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-32.png 1047w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-32-350x189.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-32-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-32-1024x554.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forteiland Pampus in the IJmeer (Created with Google Maps, 2016)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Between 1887 and 1895, the city of Amsterdam built this island with its fort. It is in the\u00a0<em>IJmeer<\/em>, right outside the city of Amsterdam, in order to defend the city in case of an attack from the IJmeer. The name\u00a0<em>Pampus\u00a0<\/em>comes from the\u00a0<em>zandbank\u00a0<\/em>(sandbank) that the fort was built on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It was part of a bigger military plan to secure the city,\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Stelling van Amsterdam<\/em>. Amsterdam was to be the last resort of the Netherlands. To delay enemies trying to invade the city, large parts would have been flooded, deep enough to keep the soldiers from wading through, and shallow enough for ships to cruise through. Genius!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, the <em>Stelling\u00a0<\/em>and <em>Forteiland Pampus\u00a0<\/em>were never needed, and quickly became obsolete with the rise of the airplane. In the first World War, the fort was manned, but the soldiers\u00a0never had to come in action. The <em>Stelling\u00a0<\/em>as a whole, though, served to deter the Germans from invading in the war.\u00a0In peaceful times, the only person on the island is the fort manager.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the second World War, however, things changed. The fort was robbed of its metal by the German occupants, and later of its wood by freezing Dutch people in the\u00a0<em>Hongerwinter\u00a0<\/em>of 1944, when people had nothing else to warm themselves with. They could reach the island in that time over the frozen\u00a0<em>IJmeer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After the war, the island fell apart. It was plundered and painted with graffiti. However, it was home to some <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bestand:Amsterdamse_studenten_bezetten_Pampus_Weeknummer_62-29_-_Open_Beelden_-_43706.ogv\">wild student parties in the 1960s<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At\u00a0the end of the 1980s, the <em>Stichting<\/em>\u00a0<em>Forteiland Pampus\u00a0<\/em>(Foundation Fort Island Pampus) wanted to save the fort, and in 1990, the Dutch government gave the Foundation the island to do just this.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">2. Pampus Today<\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/defencelineamsterdam\/10694929004\/in\/photolist-hi5iME-hi5x4m-hi5WBa-hi6uEi-8D4h8c-hi4PVi-8D4g86-hi4w4g-8D4gd8-8D4g2v-hi4CY8-hi5fif-hi5jEc-hi6gCr-8D7nEA-hi5guq-hi5XCZ-hi531Q-hi4N3k-hi6mRc-8D7noy-hi57b5-hi5TYV-8D7nrC-hi4UBG-hi53zW-hi6kyT-hi4KUH-hi5st7-hi517w-hi56yH-hi4M9X-hi5hao-hi4ZKh-hi597Y-hi5Cuw-hi6oCD-8D7oTJ-8D7oQj-hi6yTt-hi52Cf-hi5JHR-hi6eZM-hi4YUE-hi5bze-hi4TMW-hi53jL-hi6Enz-8D4hjz-8D4hiB\" aria-label=\"10694929004 160c81ff67 B\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\"  alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"357\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/4\/3673\/10694929004_160c81ff67_b.jpg\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tour on the island (Image by Defence Line Amsterdam at Flickr.com under license CC BY 2.0)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today, the island is a wonderful tourist attraction (which you can see in the video above), and it can even be rented for parties, marriages or other events!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">3. Saying\u00a0<em>Voor Pampus liggen<\/em><\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 546px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1437957146754-f6377debe171?ixlib=rb-0.3.5&amp;q=80&amp;fm=jpg&amp;crop=entropy&amp;s=e2a3649c6bf39ed9c927477d6139bfae\" aria-label=\"Photo 1437957146754 F6377debe171\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\"  alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"536\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1437957146754-f6377debe171?ixlib=rb-0.3.5&amp;q=80&amp;fm=jpg&amp;crop=entropy&amp;s=e2a3649c6bf39ed9c927477d6139bfae\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This dog definitely ligt voor Pampus!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the Dutch language, there is the saying\u00a0<em>voor Pampus liggen<\/em> (lying in front of Pampus). If somebody\u00a0<em>ligt voor Pampus<\/em>, this means that that person is exhausted, or just lying there lazily. And this saying comes from the\u00a0<em>zandbank\u00a0<\/em>that the fort was built on!<\/p>\n<p>Back in the days, the sandbank\u00a0<em>Pampus\u00a0<\/em>was an annoying obstacle for ships wanting to to get into Amsterdam. They had to wait in front of the\u00a0<em>zandbank\u00a0<\/em>for flood to come, so they could get over the sandbank without getting stuck. And the lying around there, in front of the city, doing nothing at all &#8211; that is just lying in front of Pampus.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed the post!<\/p>\n<p>Sten<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-33-350x344.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-33-350x344.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-33.png 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Another weird island in\u00a0Dutch waters! Previously, I talked about the weird &#8220;eye&#8221; in the IJsselmeer, the\u00a0IJsseloog. 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