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Summary Of: Zuiderzee Works

The Zuiderzee Works in the Netherlands turned the dangerous Zuiderzee... The Zuiderzee Works in the Netherlands turned the dangerous Zuiderzee... The Zuiderzee Works had come to an end... The Zuiderzee Works had successfully transformed the once capricious heart of the Netherlands into fertile agricultural land with... A Flevoland museum on the Zuiderzee Works and Dutch water management in general...

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The 32 km long Afsluitdijk separates the IJsselmeer from the North Sea, protecting thousands of km² of land. | | Afsluitdijk | IJsselmeer | North Sea | dams | land reclamation | hydraulic engineering | Netherlands | twentieth century | Zuiderzee | North Sea | polders | American Society of Civil Engineers | Seven Wonders of the Modern World | Delta Works | seventeenth century | Statue of Cornelius Lely on the Afsluitdijk | | nineteenth century | Cornelis Lely | Lelystad | North Holland | Friesland | IJsselmeer | IJssel | Wadden Sea | Zuiderzee | IJsselmeer | food shortage | First World War | Construction of Afsluitdijk | | June 14 | 1918 | agricultural | Wieringen | Andijk | The Zuiderzee Works in the Netherlands turned the dangerous Zuiderzee, a shallow inlet of the North Sea, into the tame IJsselmeer, and created 1650 km² of land. | | Netherlands | Zuiderzee | North Sea | IJsselmeer | Afsluitdijk | till | boulder clay | dredging | Kornwerderzand | Breezanddijk | basalt | willow | May 28 | 1932 | IJsselmeer | locks | sluices | Den Oever | Stevin | Lorentz | IJssel | September 25 | 1933 | Great Depression | € | Landsat photo of the IJsselmeer and surroundings. The difference between the old land (dominantly green), and the new lands (gained from the sea, dominantly purple) is striking. Compare with the figure above | | pumping | Wieringermeer | Noordoostpolder | Underground resistance | World War II | Lelystad | Almere | Amsterdam | Markermeer | Flevoland | Lemmer | Vollenhove | Blokzijl | Urk | Schokland | Wieringen | Kuinre | Wieringermeer | diesel | Medemblik | fail safe | Archimedes' screw | A. Baldwin Wood | June 29 | 1920 | July 31 | 1924 | Afsluitdijk | May 23 | 1932 | Wieringermeer | July 27 | 1929 | August 31 | 1930 | Noordoostpolder | December 13 | 1940 | September 9 | 1942 | Eastern Flevoland | September 13 | 1956 | June 29 | 1957 | Southern Flevoland | October 25 | 1967 | May 29 | 1968 | Houtribdijk | September 4 | 1975 | hydrological | infrastructure | reed | rapeseed | grain | rye | wheat | barley | oat | Slootdorp | Middenmeer | Wieringerwerf | Kreileroord | July 1 | 1941 | Wieringermeer | Second World War | Nazi Germany | April 17 | 1945 | Lemmer | Urk | Vollenhove | Overijssel | Satellite picture of Noordoostpolder | | North Sea flood of 1953 | Zeeland | moraine | Urk | Schokland | October 3 | 1939 | Kuinre | Emmeloord | bicycle | Ens | Marknesse | Kraggenburg | Bant | Creil | Rutten | Espel | Tollebeek | Nagele | groundwater | subsidence | geohydrologically | weirs | North Sea flood of 1953 | Delta Works | September 13 | 1956 | Harderwijk | province | Lelystad | Dronten | January 1 | 1972 | January 1 | 1980 | Zuidelijk Flevoland (Southern Flevoland) | | Amsterdam | Almere | Oostvaardersplassen | Zeewolde | January 1 | 1984 | Marken | October 17 | 1957 | North Holland | Enkhuizen | Markermeer | Houtribdijk | cabinets | province | Wieringermeer | North Holland | Flevoland | Overijssel | Gelderland | January 1 | 1986 | Zeeland | Wikimedia Commons | Delta Works | Flood | Categories | History of the Netherlands | Buildings and structures in the Netherlands | Causeways in Europe |
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