Walcheren

[ wahl-khuh-ruhn, -ruh, wahl-guh- ]

noun

1. an island in SW Netherlands: part of Zeeland province. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).

Walcheren

/ ˈwɑlxərə /

noun

1. an island in the SW Netherlands, in the Scheldt estuary: administratively part of Zeeland province; suffered severely in World War II, when the dykes were breached, and again in the floods of 1953. Area: 212 sq km (82 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Montlaur pushed on in the Normandy campaign for more than two months and saw his last combat in November 1944, during an amphibious invasion of the heavily-guarded Dutch island of Walcheren.

From Fox News

Good news for those renting out holiday homes, such as ones directly on the beach for instance, on Noord-Beveland or Walcheren, and for campsite owners.

From The Guardian

Royal Marine Arthur Thompson, from Herne Bay in Kent, came across the camera on 1 November 1944 during the Allied operation to liberate the Dutch, after it had been left by some hastily departing Germans in a large concrete bunker on the island of Walcheren.

From BBC

Set on the Walcheren peninsula of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt river delta in Zeeland, the town’s coast of powdery beach is backed by a tall barrier of grassy dunes and what is known as the Manteling, a thick grove of odd, misshapen trees, which twist and turn into tunnels.

From New York Times

When the canopy of clouds finally lifted, I understood what had drawn him back to Walcheren.

From New York Times