Texel is a municipality and an island in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark. The next island in the archipelago, to the north of Texel, is Vlieland. Although spelled with an X the name is pronounced Tessel; this is because, historically, it was spelled with a ligature for "ss", which strongly resembled the letter x. As the ligature… (More on Texel)