Geests

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Geests

flat, almost unbroken lowlands near the shores of the North Sea in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands consisting of sandy glacial and water glacial deposits with clay partings. They reach a height of 50-60 m. They are covered with wasteland, heaths, and, in well-watered depressions, peat bogs. They are used mainly as pasture land for sheep and goats. Near the rivers, where the geests are better drained, farming is carried on (potatoes and buckwheat). In the Netherlands the term “geest” is used only for the narrow strip of plains along the inner edge dunes separating the North Sea from the polders.

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

Back in the 1990s, though, when I was working on my PhD, I was in the Netherlands every year, including twice with my mother, and the van der Geests had met her.

It was a pity that those visits weren't recorded with digital photos or videos, so this time around I made sure to take many more photos of my stay in the village: in the van der Geests' home, in a windmill, in several farms, in a camp site, and a video of my son and Sjaak diving into a river and my son screaming from the cold.

One photograph from that visit was of my mother-not her in person, but a digital shot of an old photograph that I had brought for the van der Geests. I had left the living room for a few minutes and came back, surprised, to find they had put up her photograph beside two small vases of flowers, and placed next to that of one of their grandchildren, who had lived 16 days.

Recently, in the Netherlands, I brought my son to visit Sjaak van der Geest, who had been my adviser for my doctoral research.

Photos of photos

Nevertheless Geests Irish parent Fyffes yesterday said business in the first few months was up on the previous year and it was optimistic about 1998.

"Supplies of bananas to Geest were down and there was actually a shortage of fruit out of the Windward islands which held back Geests UK business a little," Mr McCann said.

Fresh produce supplier Fyffes has had a good start to the year despite uncertainty affecting its banana subsidiary Geest.

Geest, which recently opened the UKs largest banana-ripening warehouse in Coventry, is at the centre of a row over preferential European import tariffs for fruit from the Caribbean.