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 o ...
in Dutch and
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Pat ...
, may refer to:
; the name of several villages in the Netherlands:
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Hook of Holland
Hook of Holland (, ) is a coastal village in the southwestern corner of Holland, hence the name; ''hoek'' means "corner" and was in use before the word ''wikt:kaap#Dutch, kaap'' – "cape". The English translation using Hook is a false cognate of t ...
(Hoek van Holland), near Rotterdam
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Hoek, Zeeland
Hoek () is a village in the municipality of Terneuzen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It lies about 22 km south-east of Vlissingen and about 30 km north of Ghent in Belgium.
History
Hoek is a dike village which developed at a locatio ...
, near Terneuzen
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Hoek, Gelderland
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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
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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 Graha ...
, Antarctic glacier