Valdemar II
Banned
WI Denmark and Sweden decide to go together in a common project to damm the Oresund with long term plan to drain and reclaim the land. Maybe as a big make-work project in the thirties.
WI Denmark and Sweden decide to go together in a common project to damm the Oresund with long term plan to drain and reclaim the land. Maybe as a big make-work project in the thirties.
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Whats the point? The Zuiderzeewerks were built because the Netherlands had a problem with ocean floods and needed more land. I don't think Denmark and Sweden have either issue, and at any rate it would cut off ocean trade into the Baltic if Denmark/Sweden weren't also willing to build a system of canals and locks.
That would almost certainly be a deal-killer. Every single country with a baltic port would go absolutely nuts at the prospect of either being completely cut off, or at best having their trade heavily restricted and under Swedish/Danish control. Germany is the only nation with a Baltic port that might accept this, just because it would make their Kiel canal that much more of an advantage.Whats the point? The Zuiderzeewerks were built because the Netherlands had a problem with ocean floods and needed more land. I don't think Denmark and Sweden have either issue, and at any rate it would cut off ocean trade into the Baltic if Denmark/Sweden weren't also willing to build a system of canals and locks.
That would almost certainly be a deal-killer. Every single country with a baltic port would go absolutely nuts at the prospect of either being completely cut off, or at best having their trade heavily restricted and under Swedish/Danish control. Germany is the only nation with a Baltic port that might accept this, just because it would make their Kiel canal that much more of an advantage.
Wouldn't it spell the economic doom of broad swathes of Sweden?
Whats the point? The Zuiderzeewerks were built because the Netherlands had a problem with ocean floods and needed more land. I don't think Denmark and Sweden have either issue, and at any rate it would cut off ocean trade into the Baltic if Denmark/Sweden weren't also willing to build a system of canals and locks.
hmm...The thing there is I don't see much point, tjhere's not that much need for the land from Denmark and absolutely no need for it from Sweden.
Maybe in a scenario where Denmark keeps Skane?
There would still be access, but making it canal-only is still going to result in a lot of countries with Baltic ports being very, very unhappy. That's not even considering the potential environmental effects; I suspect the Baltic fishing industry is going to take a hit, and any changes in sea levels will not just have an effect in Denmark and Sweden.They still have transit through Lillebælt and Storebælt, and the transit was de facto under Danish control already, even if both Storebælt and Oresund was international waters.