Talk:Wadden Sea

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AFAIK the Dutch and Danish Wadden Sea do not have national park status. Therefore I removed the corresponding sentence. Please correct me, if I should be wrong. -- Cordyph 14:02 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

i think, the picture shows only a part of the wadden sea. it should be mentioned or can someone add the northern part?

[edit] Name

Is Wadden Sea really the common name in English for all of the area? I would assume it is appropriate for the Dutch part as a translation of Waddenzee. But it seems a bit odd to use a semi-Dutch term when it comes to the Wattenmeer (German) and Vadehavet (Danish). --Sasper 02:24, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History/Creation

I'm not completely sure, but I think the area is relative new and was created in the 17th century, when most of the old coast was spewpt away. But it may be possible, that there was a similar situation before, at the edge of the old shoreline. See Grote Mandenke. The german article on it is much more detailed http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweite_Marcellusflut MartinKal 13:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, the present situation was reached in the 14th century. Earlier flooding at the end of the last Ice Age created peat land, that was in turn destroyed by soil shrinkage due to human cultivation combined with rising sealevels.--MWAK 08:41, 28 October 2007 (UTC)