Pulicat
Pulicat is a town in Tiruvallur District of Tamil Nadu state, India. Pulicat lies approximately 40 km 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. Repeatedly captured, it did not finally become British until 1825. It became part of Madras Presidency, which later became independent India's Madras state, renamed Tamil Nadu in 1968. The Dutch church and cemetery are dilapidated, and the Dutch fort has fallen into ruin.