Slide Title

Netherlands: Enclosure Dam & IJsselmeer

Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Date

8-1969

Description

This photo shows the Afsluitdijk (Engish: Enclosure Dam), a 32 kilometer causeway in the Netherlands. The creation of the Enclosure Dam, completed in 1933, seperated Zuiderzee, a shallow bay, from the North Sea. The result was the creation of IJsselmeer (pictured here at the right), an artificial freshwater lake, and increased stability of the water, which protected ships and housing in the surrounding areas.

RIAMCO Link

Finding Aid on RIAMCO to Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications

Notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiderzee (accessed 11 June 2012)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJsselmeer (accessed 11 June 2012)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afsluitdijk (accessed 11 June 2012)

Rights

This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Subject Headings

Roads -- Causeways -- Netherlands;

Country Name

Netherlands

Region Name

North Holland

Recommended Citation

Smolski, Chet, "Netherlands: Enclosure Dam & IJsselmeer" (1969). Browse All. 906.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/906