Netherlands, the former Island Marken.
View on Marken harbour.
This year we commemorate a disastrous flood that struck the Island Marken -on the spot you are looking at- and other parts of the Province North-Holland in january 1916,during a N.W. storm.
Back in those days the water on the image was called the "Zuiderzee"; a salt water inland sea, connected to the North Sea.
The disaster of 1916 became a starting point of all kinds of waterworks in The Netherlands, to prevent more floods in the future. For istance, the Zuiderzee was cut off from the North Sea in 1932 by a large dike and gradually became a freshwater lake: the IJsselmeer.
This image was made with kite and camera.
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