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- The Dutch have been reclaiming land from the sea for centuries. The process involves building dikes and creating polders1. The northern parts of the Netherlands experienced a natural process of sea levels falling, exposing new land at a rate of 5-10 meters per year between 500 BC and 500 AD. This natural process was exploited to claim new agricultural lands2. One reclamation project resulted in Flevoland, which was created after a major flood to improve flood protection and create additional land for agricultural use3.Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.For the next few centuries, the Dutch worked to slowly push back the water of the Zuiderzee, building dikes and creating polders (the term used to describe any piece of land reclaimed from water). Once dikes were built, canals and pumps were used to drain the land and to keep it dry.www.thoughtco.com/polders-and-dikes-of-the-neth…In the northern parts of the Netherlands sea levels fell exposing new land at a rate of 5–10 meters per year between 500 BC and 500 AD. This natural process was exploited to claim new agricultural lands. Discontinuous dikes were built to protect the new farms.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation_in_the_Ne…One reclamation project resulted in Flevoland. After a major flood it was decided to tame the Zuiderzee, a large, shallow inlet of the North Sea, to improve flood protection and also create additional land for agricultural use.phys.org/news/2020-02-image-flevoland-netherlan…
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