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I've once heard that the settling of Flevoland was also an "experiment", as officials could select who could move in. Can anyone tell me if this is true?DodgeK00:50, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, what does Flevolands Volkslied mean in English?Moriori01:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It means "anthem of Flevoland".62.251.15.33 (talk)07:30, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The following posts occurred on the reference desk. I have cut and pasted them here in case they are useful for developing the article. Please do not edit between the horizontal rules as that is a verbatim quote. --SGBailey (talk)16:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have several questions aboutFlevoland that our article doesn't answer (or doesn't answer well). Flevoland appears to be in three bits Nordostpolder, Eastern flevoland and southern flevoland. Nordostpolder is the island to the top right in the map image. Presummably the other two areas form the other larger southern island. Is that the case? Why are they named separately? Where is the border between them? Then there is the history. Our pagesflevoland andzuiderzee and the officalhttp://provincie.flevoland.nl/welcome_in_flevoland/about_flevoland/history_of/ skimp on details. In particular, when (year? or full date?) was it decided to create these islands? When did construction of the islands start (presumably building the walls and draining the middles)? When was the island construction deemd 'complete'? If that is too ambiguous to answer, when did the first dwelling get built/inhabited? And lastly how was the remains of the salt from the salt water sea managed - didn't it leave the ground 'toxic'? --SGBailey (talk)22:20, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I admit I haven't read it, but the articleZuiderzee_Works should have a lot of information regarding your questions. --Wrongfilter (talk)13:20, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Flevoland article does say that the southeast part was drained in 1957 and the southwest in 1968. For the Noordoostpolder, the linked articldeSchokland says it was completed in 1942. Page 44 of this book, The European Culture Area: A Systematic Geography[1], mentions that experiments in the Wieringer Polder (the first section of the Zuider Zee to be drained, but part of North Holland province, not Flevoland) were done in the 1930's to determine the best succession of crops to remove the salt.Rmhermen (talk)15:52, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are actually seven pumping stations, while the article mentions only three or four. See thispage (in Dutch) on the website of Waterschap Zuiderzeeland.— Precedingunsigned comment added by145.53.205.91 (talk)19:03, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The completion of a polder in wartime seems worth of details151.29.70.84 (talk)18:35, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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