S&S week 11 Map

While I think about what I am going to do, it is smart to see what I have done. That is why I made this map, with a lot of the images on it, to have an overview of where I have been and what I have done.

The dark blue area is below sea level and the light blue area is also at risk of flooding. The yellow area is safe. That is the part that will stay according to the predictions. If we take a map of the pleictocene, we see that the yellow area was then the Netherlands.

The entire blue area is suitable for my project. So far I have remained southern but I also plan to go north. However, that is smarter to do after the summer vacation. All the way to the north, the Wadden Islands are very touristy. Below that, Friesland (Leeuwarden), is an area with a lot of lakes. At the top right, Groningen, is subsiding. We have extracted gas there in recent decades and the ground is sinking there and there are many earthquakes. Houses are damaged.

From the 6th century BC, residents settled in salt marsh areas in the north of the Nederlands. Because of the rising sea level, they started to build houses on mounds, artificially made hills. Some of them still exist. They are also on my list.

The part with Almere and Lelystand, the island "Flevoland" in the middle is human-made and the biggest of the world (as for now). They began in 1957 and was finished around 1968. The water is now the "Ijselmeer". Before the name was "Zuiderzee".

As you can see; there is still lots to explore.