Marsdiep
Deep tide-race between Den Helder and Texel in the Netherlands
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.
The Marsdiep was in the Age of Sail in English called the Texel, in distinction from the island of Texel.
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- NASA 20070501 Den Helder NL.jpg by "The featured astronaut photograph ISS015-E-5977 was acquired May 1, 2007, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.", Public domain
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