Walking around Marken, a small village located in the Markenmeer (Marken Lake) and was formerly an island in the Zuiderzee (Zuider Sea). Click here ▶ to see highlights and guide. This video includes 🎧Binaural Audio recording. Put on your headphones for the ultimate 3D audio experience. (From Wiki): Marken was an island in the Zuiderzee. For some time during the later 19th and early 20th centuries, Marken and its inhabitants were the focus of considerable attention by folklorists, ethnographers and physical anthropologists, who regarded the small fishing town as a relic of the traditional native culture that was destined to disappear as the modernization of the Netherlands gained pace.[5] Among them was Johann Friedrich Blumenbach who examined a skull from the island of humans which he called Batavus genuinus; and was the Belgian painter Xavier Mellery who stayed in Marken at the request of Charles De Coster. Mellery was asked to perform illustrative work and delivered several intimist works. The proje
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