Schokland
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How it came to be
Schokland was a long, narrow island in the Zuiderzee, the inland sea of the Netherlands. It changed from a peninsula into an island in the 15th century, and people settled it and were driven off by the sea again and again. More than 150 prehistoric sites on the island show life in the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
As the sea kept eating away at it, life on the island became impossible, and in 1859 the inhabitants were evacuated. The Dutch Reformed church and parsonage of 1834 and the lighthouse keeper's house of 1882 still stand, and four large village mounds are protected as archaeological sites.
Early in the 20th century a vast scheme to drain the Zuiderzee began, and in 1942 the island became part of the reclaimed Noordoostpolder, an island on dry land. It was inscribed in 1995 as a record of more than 6,000 years of struggle against the water.
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