The pier consists of a fully covered promenade with an open walking deck above it and three (until 2016 four) islands at the far end. On the back island on the right (the tower island) is a lookout tower with a 45-meter-high viewing platform that - in ideal weather conditions - offers views of up to 17 kilometers. At its base is a pancake restaurant and on the tower is a bungee jumping installation. The building on the front island on the left (called Solar Island or South Island) houses a restaurant (Pier Zuid). The steel island added to the pier afterwards was furthest out to sea and was the only one not directly connected to the promenade, but to the solar island. Until its closure in February 1991, it housed an attraction. For a number of years, the fireworks for the Scheveningen Fireworks Festival were also set off here. These fireworks are now fired from a floating pontoon at sea. The front island on the right (called pirate island or treasure island) housed an amusement arcade aimed at children. The structure on this island was removed in 2015 in anticipation of the construction of a Ferris wheel. This Ferris wheel named Skyview The Pier was officially inaugurated in 2016.
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