reclaimed land
Sea turned solid
Reclaimed land is territory recovered from water or wasteland and made usable.
The term most often describes land created by draining marshes, filling coastal shallows, or building sea walls: Much of the Netherlands consists of reclaimed land.
It also applies to former mines or industrial sites restored for development or agriculture.
- dredgingExtracting underwater sediment
- fill dirtSoil for leveling terrain
- drainageLiquid removal system
- NetherlandsNorthwestern European constitutional monarchy
- landfillWaste burial ground
polder · coastal zones · tidal flats · dike · river deltas · salt marshes · agriculture · fertile soil · floodplains · wetlands · estuaries · seawall · habitat destruction · biodiversity loss · silt · lowlands · irrigation · tidal
- DutchDutch, Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Rotterdam
- NetherlandsAmsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, tulips
- land typespark, croplands, reserve, rangelands, forest
- Dutch countrysidepolder, dike, canal, tulip field, dairy farm
- Dutch farmingtulips, greenhouses, dairy farming, tulip fields, polders
- Dutch heritageAmsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Delftware
reclaimed landvirgin land
Territory never yet developed
natural shoreline · pristine wilderness · natural landscape · wilderness
reclaimed landopen water
Unobstructed body navigable freely
tidal zone · wetland · marshland · salt marsh · mudflat