Marsdiep
Sign in to saveThe Marsdiep is a deep tide race between Den Helder and Texel in the Netherlands, and running southwards between sandbanks. That gap connects the North Sea and the Waddenzee.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Marsdiep
- Body of water.image
- NASA 20070501 Den Helder NL.jpg
- Body of water.caption
- The Marsdiep
- Body of water.location
- Between Den Helder and Texel, Netherlands
- Body of water.type
- Tide-race
- Body of water.islands
- Texel
- Body of water.countries
- Netherlands
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- Instance of
- strait
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Den Helder
- Image
- NASA 20070501 Den Helder NL.jpg
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- Marsdiep
- mouth of the watercourse
- North Sea
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Encyclopedic overview
The Marsdiep is a deep tide race between Den Helder and Texel in the Netherlands, and running southwards between sandbanks. That gap connects the North Sea and the Waddenzee.
Around 1000 AD and before, much of the modern Waddenzee and IJsselmeer was land and the Marsdiep was an ordinary brook. An early form of its name is Maresdeop, a name probably related to modern Dutch moerasdiep ("swamp deep"). During the All Saints' Flood of 1170, the sea broke through the original dune barrier and created the channel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marsdiep” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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