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Causeways: Causeways in Europe, Causeways in North America, Zuiderzee Works, Afsluitdijk, Sweet Track, Johor-Singapore Causeway

Causeways: Causeways in Europe, Causeways in North America, Zuiderzee Works, Afsluitdijk, Sweet Track, Johor-Singapore Causeway


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Causeways in Europe, Causeways in North America, Zuiderzee Works, Afsluitdijk, Sweet Track, Johor-Singapore Causeway, King Fahd Causeway, Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, Canso Causeway, Hindenburgdamm, F.J. Torras Causeway, Causewayed enclosure, Churchill Barriers, Sorell Causeway, La Salle Causeway, Yolo Causeway, Houtribdijk, Makupa Causeway, Post Track, Vainatamm, Shaikh Isa Causeway, Causewayed ring ditch. Excerpt: The Zuiderzee Works (Dutch: ) are a manmade system of dams, land reclamation and water drainage works, the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century. The project involved the damming of the Zuiderzee, a large, shallow inlet of the North Sea, and the reclamation of land in the newly enclosed water using polders. Its main purposes are to improve flood protection and create additional land for agriculture. Together with the Delta Works, the American Society of Civil Engineers declared the works among the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile originated in the seventeenth century, but the ambitious solutions suggested were impractical given the technology then available. Statue of Cornelius Lely on the AfsluitdijkThe second half of the nineteenth century saw the first feasible plans, with the primary objectives being protection from the open sea and creating new agricultural land. Cornelis Lely (after whom Lelystad is named) was an ardent supporter, an engineer and later government minister, whose 1891 plan formed the basis for what were to become the Zuiderzee Works. It consisted of a large dam connecting the northern tip of North Holland with the western coast of Friesland and the creation of initially four polders in the northwest, the northeast, southeast (later split in two), and southwest of what would be ren...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157316398
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157316395
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Causeways in Europe, Causeways in North America, Zuiderzee Works, Afsluitdijk, Sweet Track, Johor-Singapore Causeway
  • Width: 189 mm


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