A former Dutch island, now a Unesco world heritage site, is back on the map, literally, reports the AD newspaper on Wednesday.

Every year, thousands of tourists make their way to Schokland – that is if they can find it. Because Schokland, despite its international status, does not exist according to route-planners and satellite navigation devices, the paper says.
In fact Schokland today is nothing more than a couple of farms, a church and a museum. But from next weekend, this settlement will be formally given the name Schokland as it located on the site of the former island.
‘This is great. For years we have campaigned to make sure the island is not forgotten,’ local historian Gerard Corjanus told the AD.
The island of Schokland, which used to have several villages, was finally abandoned in 1859 on the orders of the government which was fed up of rescuing its population from floods. All the buildings were destroyed.
Then in the 1940s, the Zuiderzee sea around the island was reclaimed and Schokland became part of what is now the Noordoostpolder.