North Sea Canal

The North Sea Canal is a Dutch ship canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring vessels to attain the port of Amsterdam. This guy-made channel terminates at Amsterdam in the closed-off IJ Bay, which in flip connects to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.

To improve the connection among the harbour of Amsterdam and the North Sea, the North Holland Canal became built in 1824. But this lengthy and narrow canal changed into quickly inadequate to handle the developing boat site visitors. A few many years later it became determined to dig a brand new canal on the narrowest factor in Holland and thereby presenting the shortest direction to the ocean. Digging started out on eight March 1865, on the dunes of Breesaap and lasted till 1876. Since no Dutch enterprise was inclined to take on this project, the mission became offered to an English contractor. The North Sea Canal became built by using digging a channel through the vintage IJ Bay and lining it with dikes, after which the last quantities of the IJ Bay have been reclaimed and turned into polders. From this bay to the ocean, a brand new canal changed into dug through the dunes at Velsen.