Live Cams in Urk

Urk was an island in the Zuiderzee until the 1940s, when the Noordoostpolder was drained around it; today it is a town in Flevoland that still looks to the water. It has kept its fishing fleet, its harbours and its lighthouse, and the old village sits on the clay hill that once rose from the sea. The Fishermen’s Monument by the water lists the names of all Urk fishermen lost at sea, and local legend says that babies come from the Ommelebommelestien, a boulder about 30 metres off the shore.