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A drawn map of the island De Beer
A century ago nature reserve De Beer was situated opposite Hoek van Holland. The young (and later famous) Niko Tinbergen wrote a book in 1930 about this ‘bird island’. His younger friend Jan Joost ter Pelkwijk made a kind of mental map of De Beer in 1932 with more than 80 sketches on it. This map is compared with the 1938 topographical map.