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A Frozen Sea

Buiten Ij / Markermeer frozen solid during the last winter season. Ice floes formed on the surface of the inland sea. The Dutch were not only walking across but also ice skating and wind surfing on ice. A truly remarkable sight.

The Markermeer is a 700 km2 (270 sq mi) lake in the central Netherlands in between North Holland, Flevoland and its larger sibling, the IJsselmeer. A shallow lake at some 3 to 5 m in depth, it is named after the small former island, now peninsula, of Marken that lies within it. The southwest side of the lake that begins where the IJ once emptied into the Zuiderzee is known as the IJmeer.

The Markermeer was not originally intended to remain a lake. It used to be part of the Zuiderzee, a saltwater inlet of the North Sea, that was dammed off by the Afsluitdijk (Closure Dike) in 1932, turning the Zuiderzee into the freshwater IJsselmeer. The following years saw the reclamation of extensive tracts of land as large polders in a massive project known as the Zuiderzee Works (this article has a map of the area). One of these, the Markerwaard, was to occupy the area of the current Markermeer. Part of the construction of this last polder was building the Houtribdijk, also called Markerwaarddijk, finished in 1976, which hydrologically splits the IJsselmeer in two, the southern section being the Markermeer.

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Taken in: Nederland / Noord-Holland / Marken (show map)

Taken on: February 19, 2010

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-GF1, f/5.6, 1/50 sec, 20mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-GF1
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.02 sec (1/50)
Focal Length:	20mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
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