Hoek,
corner
Corner may refer to:
People
*Corner (surname)
*House of Cornaro, a noble Venetian family (''Corner'' in Venetian dialect)
Places
*Corner, Alabama, a community in the United States
*Corner Inlet, Victoria, Australia
*Corner River, a tributary of ...
in Dutch and
Afrikaans
Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gra ...
, may refer to:
; the name of several villages in the Netherlands:
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Hook of Holland
Hook of Holland ( nl, Hoek van Holland, ) is a town in the southwestern corner of Holland, hence the name; ''hoek'' means "corner" and was the word in use before the word ''kaap'' – "cape", from Portuguese ''cabo'' – became Dutch. The English t ...
(Hoek van Holland), near Rotterdam
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Hoek, Zeeland
Hoek () is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 22 km south-east of Vlissingen.
History
Hoek is a dike village which developed at a location where three dikes met. To defe ...
, near Terneuzen
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Hoek, Gelderland
; People
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Hoek (surname) Hoek is a Dutch surname. It may have a patronymic origin, as ''Hoek'' was a West Frisian form of the name Hugo. It can also be a shortened form of names like Van den Hoek ("from the corner"). Van den Hoek (disambiguation) Van den Hoek is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the corner". , Dutch surname
Other
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Hoek Glacier
Hoek Glacier () is a glacier flowing into Dimitrov Cove northeast of Veshka Point on the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, southward of the Llanquihue Islands. It was charted by the British Graham ...
, Antarctic glacier