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Title: The Netherlands - De Veluwe View count: 310 Rating: 5.0 (33 ratings) Description: Veluwe derives from Germanic *falwa (pale) in the sense of "infertile" or "unproductive". The name corresponds to "fallow lands" in English and probably was used in opposition to the fertile "good lands" of Betuwe (Is a region west of Nijmegen between the river Rhine and the river Waal with many fruit trees.) The Veluwe is a forest-rich ridge of hills (1100 km²) in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The Veluwe features many different landscapes including woodland, heath, some small lakes and Europe's largest sand drifts. The Veluwe is the largest moraine complex in the Netherlands, stretching 60 km from north to south, and reaching heights of up to 110 meters. The Veluwe was formed by the Saalian glacial during the Pleistocene epoch, some 200,000 years ago. Glaciers some 200 meters thick pushed the sand deposits in the Rhine and Maas Delta sideways,creating the hills which now form most of the Veluwe. Because the hills are made of sand, rain water disappears rapidly, and then it flows at a depth of tens of meters to the edges where it reaches the surface again. With special thanks to YouTube user ιnekemaa for sending me the links to the pictures and for her suggestion to put them with some orchestral music by Mikis Theodorakis. Tags: the, netherlands, holland, veluwe, mikis, theodorakis, axion, esti, elytis, Ολλανδία, Μίκης, Θεοδωράκης, Αξιον, Εστί, Ελύτης, Author: zeena61 |
