The 1953 NorthSea flood (Dutch: Watersnoodramp) was a major flood caused by a heavy storm surge that struck the Netherlands, north-west Belgium, England
between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the
Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a NorthSea coastline
management of the Western Netherlands. To improve the connection between the harbour of Amsterdam and the NorthSea, the North Holland Canal was built in