The Netherlands in 1986: Queen Beatrix opens Delta works

The Deltaworks are a series of constructions built between 1950 and 1997 in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta from the sea. The works consist of dams, sluices, locks, dikes, and storm surge barriers. The aim of the dams, sluices, and storm surge barriers was to shorten the Dutch coastline, thus reducing the number of dikes that had to be raised.

Here you see Queen Beatrix officially open the Oosterscheldekering (Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier), between the islands Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, which is the largest of the 13 Delta works flooding.

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[MUFTINIAN]

i ask the queen of holland if she can give me help.to tell her governments and parties to respect my political situition as iraqy man came to holland for his political case and belong to his motherland IRAQ for this porpuse not to any other country.i cant live normally in holland i cant do any things to my political spicial case ,i cant write or print my books also i live here in holland they make me like i live in a middel centures stones.the gemeente in wageningen i wrote to them alot,no use !

[musiclover3369]

lol toen was ze zo veel jonger!