Welcome back, fellow researcher, to another one of the many star islands in Nederland. Elburg is a small fishing village located on the Veluweneer river estuary. This area turns out to have a very interesting past, one that links nicely to the star island we have found there. Elburg is not officially a star or bastian fort, but as you will see it definitely qualifies.
As we continue on our quest for these amazing star-shaped islands, we next head to the flat lands southeast of Groningen, Netherlands, to the town of Bourtange, resting along the […]
2023 Hokkaido Flower Season, Japan The cherry blossoms at the Hakodate Flower Attraction, Goryokaku Tower, and the Yoshino cherry blossom benchmark tree at Hokkaido Shrine in Sapporo, are officially in […]
The perfect lines and angles of these star forts would have taken serious engineering, and to even excavate would have taken quite a lengthy time. Simple people of the time, […]
This is not just a star fort. Look at the hill, it’s molded into a fortress. Can you imagine the scale of the work? The date of construction is not […]
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