New Holland Island (Saint Petersburg)
Russia /
Sankt Petersburg /
Saint Petersburg
World
/ Russia
/ Sankt Petersburg
/ Saint Petersburg
, 3 km from center (Санкт-Петербург)
World / Russia / Leningrad
architectural ensemble/complex, draw only border, listed building / architectural heritage, historic district
New Holland Island was created in 1720, when the newly-built Kryukov Canal and Admiralty Canal connected the Moika River with the Neva. The triangular island took its name after a number of canals and shipbuilding facilities that rendered its appearance similar to Amsterdam.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Holland_Island
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 59°55'46"N 30°17'22"E
- Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation 0.3 km
- ulitsa Yakubovicha, 26 0.3 km
- N. Rimsky-Korsakov St.Petersburg State Conservatory 0.5 km
- Yusupov Palace at the Moika 0.5 km
- State Historical Museum of Religion 0.7 km
- Mariinsky palace 1.1 km
- Nikol'sky market 1.1 km
- State University of Technology and Design 1.3 km
- Yusupov Palace on the Fontanka 1.6 km
- naberezhnaya reki Fontanki, 106 1.8 km
- Admiralteysky Municipal Okrug 0.5 km
- Municipal Okrug 7 0.5 km
- Kolomna Municipal Okrug 0.7 km
- Kolomensky Island 0.8 km
- Admiralty Island 0.9 km
- Admiralty Shipyard (incld. Sudomekh) 1.2 km
- Admiralteysky District 1.3 km
- Bezymyanny island 2.3 km
- Vasileostrovsky District 2.7 km
- Vasil'yevsky island 2.7 km