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	Encyclopedia: North Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Norway and Denmark in the east, the United Kingdom in the west, and Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in the south.
		The Baltic Sea The Kattegat, or Kattegatt, is a bay of the North Sea and a continuation of the Skagerrak, bounded by Denmark and Sweden.
		Major rivers that drain into the North Sea include the Forth (at Edinburgh), Elbe (at Cuxhaven), the Weser (at Bremerhaven), the Ems at Emden, the Rhine and Meuse (at Rotterdam), the Scheldt (at Flushing), the Thames, and the Humber (at Hull).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/North-Sea (2303 words)

	NORTH HOLLAND - LoveToKnow Article on NORTH HOLLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		, a province of the kingdom of Holland, lying between the North Sea and the Zuider Zee, and on the landward side bounded by the provinces of South Holland and Utrecht.
		But the fact of there being no inlets of the sea is the reason of the absence of commercial towns along the sea-board, the only exception being Ymuiden, which has arisen at the mouth of the North Sea canal from Amsterdam.
		Thi,s region is traversed by the North Holland canal (1819-1825), between Amsterdam and the naval station of den Helder.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NO/NORTH_HOLLAND.htm (756 words)

	North Sea Canal -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The canal, 106 miles (171 km) long, runs from Bamberg on the Main River (a tributary of the Rhine) to Kelheim on the Danube River, permitting traffic to flow between the North Sea and the Black Sea.
		(“North Sea–Baltic Sea Canal”), waterway extending eastward for 61 miles (98 km) from Brunsbüttelkoog (on the North Sea, at the mouth of the Elbe River) to Holtenau (at Kiel Harbour on the Baltic Sea), in northern Germany.
		A canal may be dug to drain low areas, to float away sewage, to bring water to dry farmlands, or to carry water from storage places, such as reservoirs, to city water-supply systems.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056219?tocId=9056219 (1015 words)

	Navis.gr - Cruise Atlas - Amsterdam, Netherlands
		First the North Holland Canal was dug, to be followed at the end of the 19th century by the North Sea Canal, the one you are presently cruising on.
		North of the canal are modern cities such as Beverwijk and Zaandam, the location of the world-famous Zaanse Schans with its many mills and characteristic half-timbered houses.
		The banks of the North Sea Canal are a good example of responsible nature management in which the goal is to enhance the ecological structure so that animals and plants have room to cross-pollinate, disseminate and multiply.
	www.navis.gr /recreati/cratlas/amsterda.htm (1046 words)

	Navis.gr - The Kiel Canal, Germany
		The Kiel Canal or Nord-Ostee-Kanal (North Sea Baltic Canal) as it is known in German, is the shortest link between the North Sea and the Baltic.
		The Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostee Kanal) (formerly Kaiser Wilhelm Canal) connects the Baltic with the North Sea.
		The canal permits passage of vessels with a maximum draught of 9.5m and the size limitations are 160m length and 27m width, or 193m length and 20m width.
	www.navis.gr /canals/kiel.htm (630 words)

	Amsterdam Cycle Route 3: dune villas, castle ruins, and sea locks
		This is a relict of the mediaeval sea dike, on the south side of the IJ estuary.
		The poorest municipalities, incidentally, are all in north Friesland and Groningen.
		The North Sea Canal was a late 19th century technical achievement, cutting the shortest route from Amsterdam to the sea, through the dunes.
	web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-3.html (5454 words)

	IJ (bay) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In historic times, the IJ was a long and narrow brackish bay that connected to the Zuiderzee (itself a bay of the North Sea) and stretched from Amsterdam in the east to Velsen in the west.
		At the same time, the North Sea Canal was constructed in the former IJ basin to provide Amsterdam with access to the sea again and revive its ailing port.
		It cut through the isthmus to connect to the North Sea near the town of Velsen; a new port, IJmuiden ("Ymouth") was built at its west end.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/I/IJ-(bay).htm (457 words)

	Amsterdam Cycle Route 7: Port, Westzaan and Zaan river
		The westward expansion of the port began after the North Sea Canal was completed in 1876: the historic docks lie east of the centre.
		On either side of the canal is a strip of 1870's polders, between the new canal dike and the mediaeval sea dike.
		When the North Sea Canal was built, it was regulated as a side channel, Zijkanaal G. pass under the bridge (link road to Amsterdam-Noord), you are now in the port area.
	web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-7.html (4342 words)

	North Sea biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south.
		A bay of the North Sea is Skagerrak, between Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, which connects to the Baltic Sea through Kattegat, Öresund, the Great Belt and the Small Belt.
		In the south, the North Sea connects with the rest of the Atlantic through the English Channel and in the north through the Norwegian Sea.
	north-sea.biography.ms (312 words)

	Velsen - TheBestLinks.com - Amsterdam, Netherlands, North Holland, Square kilometre, ...
		Velsen (population: 66,798) is a municipality in the north-western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland, on both sides of the North Sea Canal.
		Velsen North, with Hoogovens, the Dutch division of Corus, on the west and a residential quarter on the east
		The Kennemerstrand beach on the nouth side of the canal is at the end of the Kennemerboulevard, which runs south of the Seaport Marina.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Velsen.html (259 words)

	Amsterdam
		Often called ‘the Venice of the North’, Amsterdam contains more than 7,000 houses classified as historical monuments, most of which were built during the golden age of the 17th century.
		The Netherlands' second most important port after Rotterdam, Amsterdam is connected to the North Sea by the North Sea Canal, completed in 1876.
		A new canal leading to the River Waal, south of Utrecht, was completed in 1952 to improve the connection between Amsterdam and the River Rhine.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0002873.html (422 words)

	Amsterdam Cycle Route 2: Spaarndam/Velserbroek, dikes, heritage, and suburban landscape
		The intermediate canal curves away, and between it and the main dike are former outer meadows.
		Behind it is the reclaimed farmland of the 1870's, and the line of trees marking the dike of the North Sea Canal.
		All the components of the ex-estuary landscape are visible here: the main sea dike, the outer pastures, the remains of the low outer dike, the intermediate canal, and its retaining dike.
	members.chello.nl /p.treanor/cycle-2.html (4602 words)

	Dead Sea Canal
		The Dead Sea sank deep into the valley and was deprived of its natural outflow to the sea.
		After 20 years, when the Dead Sea reached its historic levels and the inflow matched the evaporation rate, the flow of the canal would be reduced.
		In the case of the canal, although it may be necessary to bring outside donors and engineers in, the parties themselves must craft an agreement to satisfy both countries goals to rejuvenate the Dead Sea region, and to alleviate water shortages.
	www.american.edu /ted/deadsea.htm (5945 words)

	news > lexicon
		Amsterdam was threatened with demise, as with Bruges in the Middle Ages.
		There was one last resort: an east-west canal directly across the lowlands and dunes at the point where Holland was most narrow.
		That was the origin of the North Sea Canal, constructed between 1863 and 1876, with the mighty IJmuiden sea locks to ensure that Greater Amsterdam would not be flooded as the city lies below sea level.
	www.amsterdampartners.nl /news/lexicon.php?id=184 (150 words)

	Hotel Prinsenhof and IJmuiden; facts and figures.
		The origin of the municipality is thevillage of Velsen, today squeezed in between the motorway and the NorthSea canal, but in the days of old an agrarian community situated betweenthe dunes and the Wijkermeer lake.
		There are signs of habitation from asearly as the Bronze age and it is still bearing traces of Roman rule bymeans of a fort and a harbour in the Wijkermeer lake.
		At the end of the 19thcentury the fishing fleet was enriched with a new harbour, developed bythe State of Holland, wherein later the States fish auction was to be established.IJmuiden grew to become the most important harbour for the supply of seafish to the country, a position which is consolidated to this day.
	www.xs4all.nl /~prinshof/ijmuiden/feiten.html (574 words)

	Gut Knoop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The estate of Knoop lies north of Kiel directly on the North Sea-Baltic-Canal and its mansion and grounds constitute one of the most well developed examples of classical architecture in the country.
		The position of the farmyard in the surrounding landscape was considerably affected when the Schleswig-Holstein canal was built between 1777 and 1784, and about ten years later a new and still existing mansion was erected.
		The mansion is oriented with its main facade to a courtyard, with a garden behind leading to the canal.
	www.schloesser.schleswig-holstein.de /knoop_e.html (507 words)

	Bicycling the North Sea Route
		The bucolic North Sea Route traverses a swath of interesting lands along and near the North Sea that are rarely visited by foreign tourists (except for Bruges).
		On the North Sea Route you ordinarily do not follow your own trip routing, but rather a waymarked route that has been laid out by local organizations, working with regional authorities to create a seamless whole.
		On the maps the distance from the north end of the route is noted every 10 kilometers, as are, in the Netherlands, the marker numbers of the ANWB biking signposts.
	www.mayq.com /Best_european_trips/North_Sea/North_Sea.htm (7121 words)

	The Wet Heart at present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the summer the Markermeer is flushed through in the direction of the North Sea Canal.
		The canals distinguish themselves from the lakes due to the fact that, besides the discharging, water is also pumped into the North Sea, especially in the winter.
		In the canals the storage basin level is determined by the target level (in the summer and winter this is NAP [Normal Amsterdam Level] —0.4 m).
	www.rdij.nl /rdij/ijsselmeergebied/win/win3_uk.htm (486 words)

	Teylers museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On November 1st, 1876, King William III officially opened the North Sea Canal, which connected the harbour of Amsterdam directly with the North Sea.
		On the occasion of its 125th anniversary the Teyler Museum is showing about 50 photographs of this ambitious project, made during the period 1868-1895.
		The building of the jetty's in the sea, the factory for concrete blocks in the dunes at Velzen, the sluices during construction as well as after completion: everything was recorded for posterity.
	www.teylersmuseum.nl /site1995/engels/archief/Kanaaleng.html (162 words)

	The Hotel Prinsenhof and IJmuiden Northsea canal page
		It didn't take long before the Zuider locks became too small as the sea ships were getting bigger and bigger and so, in '89, the construction of the Nieuwe (New) lock was started, finishing 20 years after the canal was opened.
		The maintenance of the pumping station, the big lock doors, and the depth of the canal are the responsibility of the Rijkswaterstaat Noord Holland, but the shipping movements and the piloting of the really big vessels are controlled by the Amsterdam Port Authorities.
		It is a unique canal in the sense that the water is brackish, sustaining plants that are not found anywhere else.
	www.hotelprinsenhof.com /ijmuiden/zeekanaal.html (881 words)

	North_Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Major rivers that drain into the North Sea include the Elbe (at Cuxhaven), the Weser (at Bremerhaven), the Ems at Emden, the Rhine and Meuse (at Rotterdam), the Scheldt (at Flushing), the Thames, and the Humber (at Hull).
		There is a substantial amount of oil and natural gas under the seabed: see North Sea oil.
		Its modern name is thought to have originated from a Frisian point of view which lies directly to the south of the North Sea (also see Zuiderzee).
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=North_Sea (361 words)

	Travel Channel :: Amsterdam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The left-hand side of the line is the North Sea Canal, an engineering accomplishment of the first magnitude.
		The right-hand side of the line is the IJ River (pronounced "eye"), which once flowed into the brackish Zuiderzee and thence into the North Sea by a roundabout route that led north past Hoorn, Enkhuizen, and Den Oever.
		Everything within the Lijnbaansgracht, or outermost canal, is called the Centrum; everything beyond belongs to the modern development of Amsterdam and is subdivided into West, Zuid (south), and Oost (east).
	travel.discovery.com /destinations/fodors/amsterdam/sightsacts.html (432 words)

	DUTCH COASTLINE GUIDE
		The area lies right behind the magnifice dunes, to the south of the North Sea canal and within a stone's throw from the west of Amsterdam.
		De Slufter is a unique valley amid the dunes into which the water of the North Sea pours unhindered at the flood tide.
		In the days when sea voyages were made to the Far East, the ships of the Dutch East Indies Company anchored in the roads of Texel to take on water and supplies and to await a favourable wind.
	www.gotravel.nl /docs/regionguide/dutchcoastline/region.php (845 words)

	North Sea Canal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		North Sea Canal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		It ends at Amsterdam in the closed-off (Click link for more info and facts about IJ) IJ (An indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf) bay, which in turn connects to the (Click link for more info and facts about Amsterdam-Rhine Canal) Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.
		Railroad (A passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)) tunnels (with nearest train station on the south and north bank):
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/north_sea_canal.htm (198 words)

	IJmuiden -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The port is situated at the western end of the North Sea (Noordzee) Canal, which was opened in 1876.
		Velsen lies along the North Sea Canal, which connects Amsterdam with the North Sea.
		coastal provincie (province), northwestern Netherlands, comprising a peninsula (area 1,030 square miles [2,667 square km]) surrounded by the North Sea (west), the Waddenzee (north), and the IJsselmeer (Lake IJssel; east).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9042086?tocId=9042086 (428 words)

	Archived Links: Recommended Destinations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It’s always a busy month for events on the canal our office overlooked by our office, but residents and visitors this year are presented with a choice of everything from bizarre through spectacular and sublime to extravagant.
		The first event is the high point of the city’s annual Gay Pride programme – the Canal Parade, which follows a route along the entire length of the Prinsengracht.
		At the mouth of the IJ just before it reaches the North Sea is IJmuiden’s Seaport Marina, where the HISWA in-water boat show will begin this year on August 30th.
	www.oakecommunications.com /destination_links_archive.html (2180 words)

	Haarlem Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The North Sea is just six kilometres away via the river Spaarne, the river IJ in Spaarndam (locks), the North Sea Canal and the port of IJmuiden (locks): a veritable paradise for seafarers, surfers and sea fishermen.
		The Spaarne and the North Sea Canal flow into the ljsselmeer and from there on to the major European rivers.
		One canal still in existence within the city boundaries is the Nieuwe Gracht, a real Amsterdam-style canal.
	www.euronet.nl /~jonkr/haarlemweb/pages/haarluz.htm (894 words)

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