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Afsluitdijk

The 32 km dam that shut the Zuiderzee out of the North Sea and turned it into the freshwater IJsselmeer — the largest of the Zuiderzee Works.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1891 CE mainstream
  Cornelis Lely draws the first plan to close and reclaim the Zuiderzee source
• 1916 CE mainstream
  the Zuiderzee flood, and the hunger that followed, turn opinion in favour of the plan source
• 1927 CE mainstream
  construction begins source
• 1932 CE mainstream
  the last tidal gap, the Vlieter, is closed with a single bucket of till on 28 May source
• 1933 CE mainstream
  officially opened on 25 September; the Zuiderzee becomes the IJsselmeer source

Where

53.0000° N, 5.1667° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Lely
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_of_1916
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afsluitdijk

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