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 | The lighthouse "Skagen West" Was build in 1956.
It contains no control room but it's remotely controled from a comand post in "Skagen Fyr" (57°44'7.91"N 10°37'49.56"E) |  | 10/24/2006 | 248 | 
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 | At the railway station of Frederikshavn stands the old snowplough of the Skagen Railways (SB). It has been standing here for years waiting to come home to Skagen again.
(Photo from toggal.dk) | | 03/17/2008 | 170 |
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 | When you have passed the city Skagen you can drive up to the utmost north east point of Denmark where the Germans made some fortifications to defence and to control the entrance of the Baltic sea.
Along the road Nr. 40 just outside Skagen you see a camping/holiday resort.
You can start at the beach and do your search in the direction of the lighthouse. You will encounter ... | | 09/24/2009 | 85 |
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 | Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (October 9, 1846 – January 14, 1908), was a Danish poet, painter and dramatist. He was born and died in Copenhagen but he got a final resting place in a tomb in the dunes north of Skagen because he lived most of his life in Skagen.
He became most famous as dramatist with his most famous play "Der var engang" (Once upon a time) from 1885. It was a ... | | 11/10/2009 | 43 |
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 | Skagen Radar Station
The 2D Military radar has been operational since 1978 and is part of NATOs radar coverage program. | | 10/17/2006 | 248 |
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 | South of the headquarters of M.A.A. 205 you' ll find M.K.B. Vineta. This battery is on the same place as a former Dutch coastal battery. Initially the guns were on open platforms, but with the Schartenbauprogramm of 1943, four 671SK were built. For the secondary fieldguns a 612 was used. The fire control-post of the former Dutch battery was kept into use for its original purpose.
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 | M.K.B. Malo Terminus was build on top of the old French battery Zuydcoote (1778). The old battery was build as defense against the British, after France agreed to the independence of the United States of America.
Some of the bunkers that still exist today:
four 671 (Schartenstand für Geschütze auf Mittlere Sockellafette (120°) ohne Nebenräume),
a M 162a (Leitstand ... | | 12/21/2007 | 436 |
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 | Hope hundred africans- also the last stop for hundreds. Thousands of humans came in the last years on the search for a better life here living or death. How much do hope and wrong live on this island? What can we do for it?
Die Hoffnung hunderter Afrikaner-
aber auch die Endstation für Hunderte.
Tausende von Menschen kamen in den letzten Jahren auf der Suche nach einem bes... | | 08/23/2006 | 432 |
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 | M.K.B. Zanddijk consisted of two ammunitionbunkers, a M 120 (Leitstand für eine 17 cm Batterie) and two M 219 (Stand für 15 cm SKC/28 in Drehhaube C/34). These two M 219 are the only two built in the Netherlands. The guns of these bunkers came from the battleship Gneisenau. This ship was in the dry dock at Kiel, when it received a direct hit during a bombardment.
Both M 219' s are still ... |  | 09/27/2006 | 303 |
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 | This is a Regelbau R617 (Nachrichtenstand für Netzknotenpunkte), which was the HQ for the german army on Texel. | | 09/24/2006 | 323 |
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 | At Cap Des Sardinaux, east of Sainte-Maxime, there is a 612 (Schartenstand für Lande- und Sturmabwehrgeschütze ohne Nebenräume) that was part of the Südwall. | | 07/12/2006 | 411 |
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 | Here you can see the third highest building in Basel/Switzerland. It's called "Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich" and is 70m high. |  | 09/24/2005 | 250 |
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