Statue on Afsluitdijk...

The statue of Cornelis Lely on the Afsluitdijk has been standing at the Vlieter since 2007

De Vlieter is an area in the Wadden Sea, along the Afsluitdijk, about six kilometers east of Den Oever.

The Vlieter was originally a deep, north-south running channel that was used for shipping traffic to and from the Zuiderzee. The trench cut through a salt marsh with sandbanks, the Warkumerbuitenwaard. On the west side of the Vlieter the soil was sandy and sand ridges formed, on the east side a green beach lay on clayey messenger

History
The Vlieter incident took place here in 1799, in which a Dutch squadron surrendered to the British without a fight. Samuel Story, the commander of this squadron, was banned from the Netherlands for life.

De Vlieter was the last hole in the Afsluitdijk. It was closed on May 29, 1932. Here is now the Monument on the Afsluitdijk. There is a parking space and a pedestrian bridge over the motorway. In 2007 the statue of Cornelis Lely was moved here.

In 2009, the Dutch government designated 143 hectares of the Wadden Sea at the Vlieter as a protected nature area. Mussel beds must be able to develop undisturbed here. No mussels or other soil-disrupting activities may therefore be caught in the area.