The Voorne Canal (Also "Canal through Voorne", In Dutch: Kanaal door Voorne or Voornse kanaal) is a former ship canal on Voorne-Putten in South Holland, the Netherlands. It was the first canal to connect Rotterdam to the sea. Construction of the canal started in 1826 and was completed in 1829. Until the completion of the Nieuwe Waterweg in 1872 it was the main connection from Rotterdam to the sea for ocean going ships.
The VoorneCanal (Also "Canal through Voorne", In Dutch: Kanaal door Voorne or Voornse kanaal) is a former ship canal on Voorne-Putten in South Holland...
[ˌɦɛləvutˈslœys] ) is a small city in the western Netherlands. It is located in Voorne-Putten, South Holland. The former municipality covered an area of 61.20 km2...
connection of Amsterdam to the sea. The VoorneCanal was a similar project for Rotterdam. A few years after the canal had been opened, an overview of the...
easier to reach than Rotterdam harbor. This changed in 1829, when the VoorneCanal was opened. Meanwhile, profits from the trade with the Dutch East Indies...
estuary/delta area with many small waterways between them. Ships had to sail around Voorne-Putten to go out to sea. This could take several days or even weeks. To...
in via the Bernisse. It is also connected to the Haringvliet via the VoorneCanal. van der Spek, J.F. "Half a century of morphological change in the Haringvliet...
the Afgedamde Maas and was connected to the Bergse Maas via the Heusden Canal to retain shipping between the Maas and Rhine. Floods of the waterway in...
of the Boven Merwede after the branching-off of the Nieuwe Merwede ship canal. It flows from Hardinxveld-Giessendam to Dordrecht, where it splits into...
pronunciation: [ˈbɛr(ə)xsə ˈmaːs]; current spelling: Bergsche Maas) is a canal that was constructed in 1904 to be a branch of the river Maas (French: Meuse)...
as a result of the extensive flood of 1216, which breached the dunes of Voorne and created a deep saltwater inlet (the current Haringvliet). During a second...
IJssel Islands and Peninsulas Rozenburg IJsselmonde Het Eiland van Dordt Voorne and Putten Hoeksche Waard Tiengemeten Goeree-Overflakkee Schouwen-Duiveland...
Den Briel") is a long, narrow lake between the Dutch estuary islands of Voorne and Rozenburg in the province of South Holland. The lake takes its name...
The Pannerdens Kanaal (Pannerden Canal) is a canal in the Netherlands that was dredged between 1701 and 1709 to cut off a large, shallow bend of the river...
been channelised to form the mouth of the Griftkanaal the Willemsvaart canal (east) at the city of Zwolle the Zwolle-IJsselkanaal (east) near Zwolle...
IJssel Islands and Peninsulas Rozenburg IJsselmonde Het Eiland van Dordt Voorne and Putten Hoeksche Waard Tiengemeten Goeree-Overflakkee Schouwen-Duiveland...
ship canal in 1870 and subsequently was connected to Rozenburg when the remainder of Het Scheur was dammed off). The island is now connected to Voorne-Putten...
IJssel Islands and Peninsulas Rozenburg IJsselmonde Het Eiland van Dordt Voorne and Putten Hoeksche Waard Tiengemeten Goeree-Overflakkee Schouwen-Duiveland...
IJssel Islands and Peninsulas Rozenburg IJsselmonde Het Eiland van Dordt Voorne and Putten Hoeksche Waard Tiengemeten Goeree-Overflakkee Schouwen-Duiveland...
Merwede (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌniu.ə ˈmɛrʋeːdə]; "New Merwede") is a Dutch canal, mainly fed by the river Rhine, that was constructed in 1870 to form a branch...
collided with the steamship Zephyr ( United Kingdom) and sank in the VoorneCanal at Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was refloated on 27 December...
Haringvlietdam, which provides a road connection between the island of Voorne to the north and the island of Goeree-Overflakkee to the south. The dam...
The Bijlands Kanaal (Bijland Canal) is a canal in the Dutch province of Gelderland, near the Dutch-German border. It is currently by far the most important...
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