IJgeul
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The IJgeul or IJ trench is a man-made excavation on the bottom of the North Sea, off the coast of IJmuiden, which provides access to large vessels with deep drafts to the port of IJmuiden, and also via the North Sea Canal, to the port of Amsterdam (just like the Eurogeul for the port of Rotterdam).
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- Instance of
- navigation channel
- Part of
- Port of Amsterdam
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Velsen
- Image
- Vuurtoren-IJmuiden.jpg
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- inception
- 1982-01-01
- located in/on physical feature
- North Sea
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The IJgeul or IJ trench is a man-made excavation on the bottom of the North Sea, off the coast of IJmuiden, which provides access to large vessels with deep drafts to the port of IJmuiden, and also via the North Sea Canal, to the port of Amsterdam (just like the Eurogeul for the port of Rotterdam).
The name comes from IJ and geul, a Dutch word meaning "the portion of a channel that often has to be dredged."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “IJgeul” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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