Pulicat

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Pulicat is a town which lies in the Tiruvallur District, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is approximately 40 km to the north of Chennai, on the seaward side of the barrier island of Sriharikote, which separates Pulicat Lake from the Bay of Bengal. Pulicat Lake is a shallow salt water lagoon which stretches for about 60 km along the coast.

The Dutch built a fort here as early as 1609, and it was for a long time their chief settlement on the Coromandel Coast. It repeatedly changed possession, until finally occupied by the British in 1825. It became part of the Madras Presidency, which later became Madras state in independent India, later renamed Tamil Nadu in 1968. The Dutch church and cemetery are dilapidated today, and the Dutch fort has fallen into ruin.