Noordhollands Kanaal (English spelling)

Japanese: Noordhollands Kanaal(英語表記)NoordhollandsKanaal
Noordhollands Kanaal (English spelling)

...It is 15.5m deep and 170m wide, and can handle ships of 80,000 tons. It is difficult to travel from Amsterdam to the open sea through the Zuiderzee (now the IJsselmeer) due to shallow waters and strong winds, so after the Noordhollands Kanaal (79km long) connecting Amsterdam to Helder on the north coast was opened in 1824, ships relied on this canal. However, it could not accommodate the increasing size of ships, so construction of this canal connecting Amsterdam to the North Sea in the shortest distance was started in 1865 and completed in 1883, and the outer port of IJmuiden was built at the entrance to the canal.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Noordhollands Kanaal" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…水深15.5m,幅170mで,8万トンの船舶の航行が可能。アムステルダムからゾイデル海(現,アイセル湖)を通って外海へ出ることは,浅瀬や強風のために難しく,1824年に北海岸のヘルデルHelderとの間を結ぶ北ホラント運河Noordhollands Kanaal(全長79km)が開通してからは,もっぱらこれに頼っていた。しかし船の大型化には対応できず,最短距離で北海とを結ぶこの運河が1865年に着手され83年完成し,運河入口に外港アイマイデンが建設された。…

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