Volendam (disambiguation)
Volendam is a town in North Holland in the Netherlands.
Ships
Several ships have been named after the town. They include:
- SS Volendam, a transatlantic liner built in 1922 and scrapped in 1951
- SS Brasil (1957), an ocean liner renamed Volendam in 1972 and scrapped in 2004
- MS Volendam, a cruise ship built in 1999
Other
Volendam may also refer to:
- Colonia Volendam, a Russian Mennonite town in Paraguay, named after the 1922 steamship
- Volendam neurodegenerative disease, a type of Pontocerebellar hypoplasia
- Volendam New Year's fire, a deadly café fire in Volendam in the New Year's night of 2000–2001
- Volendam Windmill, a windmill in Holland Township, New Jersey, United States
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