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Sand dunes of the Veluwe
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Jan Jansen
November 11, 2025
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The high ridge along the edge of the Wekeromse Zand was formed by farmers in earlier centuries planting trees to halt the advancing drifting sand. Only with the large-scale planting of pines at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century was the drifting sand on the Velwe controlled.
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Elevation 30 m
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