> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Coster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2001 3:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Effects Of Rising Sea Level (was: Re: Transferring Wealth)
>
>
> > Behalf Of Charlie Bell
>
> > Even a rise
> > of 20 metres wouldn't Flood my old house in Wimbledon though.
> > Make trips to
> > the seaside a lot easier though.
> >
> > <vision of playing with bucket and spade on new beach next to
> Westminster>
>
> Is this on a beach with sand or the usual English beach comprised
> of boulders?
>
> And Jeroen:
> > > Guess we'll just have to build even higher dikes. BTW, if it
> > > wasn't for our
> > > dikes, about a third of the country would already be part of the
> > > North Sea.
> >
>
> So Charlie said:
> > And has been before. A lot of the Netherlands was flooded in WW2, IIRC.
>
> A lot of Holland was North Sea up to and including WW2.
> Amsterdam's airport - actually, I guess it must be the only
> airport in the Netherlands ;-) - is Schipol, which I think means
> "ship's graveyard" cos that's what was happening there up to the
> 18th century.
>
> All sorts of stuff has been found in the last few decades as the
> reclaimed land becomes farmland. Quite apart from various WW2
> aircraft but I recall a few years back a German Gotha bomber of
> WW1 was found (and shouldn't have been there as Holland was able
> to stay neutral in WW1), and that 16th and 17th century ships are
> so frequently found that the excavation process is now routine.
>
> Anyway, hundreds of RAF and USAAF bombing missions entered Europe
> over the Zuyder Zee as it was then, which didn't take the
> Luftwaffe long to realise and then counter with flak and
> fighters. Dozens of aircraft, from both sides, are believed to
> have been lost there. I've got a couple of magazine articles
> about a Halifax and a Focke Wulf 190 that were found a few years
> back. B17s and B24s also turn up too. It's possible that my
> cousin's Lancaster that went missing in 1945 will one day turn up
> in a paddock there, although his plane could be anywhere from
> Yorkshire to Leipzig. Just disappeared, no trace.
>
> Brett
>
> Brett Coster
> Technical writer
> at IFE-Tebel Australia
>
> Ph: 0417 036 310
