The Netherlands, near Beverwijk.
When the North Sea Canal was built (1876) by digging a channel through the old IJ Bay, it was lined with dikes, after which the remaining portions of the IJ Bay were reclaimed and turned into polders. These images are made in the Wijkermeerpolder, one of the reclaimed polders. So, a 150 years ago, a salt water lake, directly connected with the "Zuiderzee", was located here.
Image made with a kite and a camera, attached to the kite's line.

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The Netherlands - Beverwijk
In fortification, a lunette was originally an outwork of half-moon shape. This lunet in Beverwijk (anno 1800) was part of a line of defense, built from Beverwijk to Wijk aan Zee, to protect Holland (on its narrowest point) against enemy attack from northern North-Holland. Originally the series counted about 30 lunets; 7 of them are (more or less) preserved. Image made with kite and camera (attached to the kite's line). © Tom Kisjes

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The Netherlands, near Beverwijk.
Lost and found! Or perhaps a science project?
Image made with a kite and a camera, attached to the kite's line.

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The Netherlands-Beverwijk
The sinuous St. Aagtendyke is a 13th Century embankment that protected the village Beverwijk and its surrounding territory for ages against the salt water of the former, since 1860 reclaimed lake Wijker (on the left side of the dyke). The dyke was named after the holy Saint Agatha of Sicily, who appears to have saved a local virgin, fleeing from the Northmen Rorik. The original names of Beverwijk were St Aghetendorpe and St Aagtenkerke, also derived from this saint. Image made with kite and camera (attached to the kite's line). © Tom Kisjes

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The Netherlands-Beverwijk
View on the north entrance/exit of the Wijker tunnel (part of the A9 highway), that runs beneath the North Sea Canal.
The tunnel was build between 1993-1996. The submerged part has a length of almost 600 m. The deepest point lies 24,5 m. under NAP (Amsterdam Ordnance Datum or Normaal Amsterdams Peil).
Image made with kite and camera (attached to the kite's line).

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