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The Navigational History of a Challenging Inland Sea The 32km-long dam called the Afsluitdijk, separating what was then the Zuiderzee from the North Sea, was completed in the Netherlands in 1932. It transformed the Zuiderzee from a large, shallow bay of the North Sea into a freshwater lake, which was renamed the IJsselmeer in a reference to the River IJssel – one of the major branches of the Rhine. This feat of Dutch hydraulic engineering signalled the end for the Zuiderzee and its rich his...