Vlie 2120946 208488244 2008-04-27T08:48:33Z SieBot 4005189 robot Adding: [[fy:Fly]] The '''Vlie''' or '''Vliestroom''' is the seaway between the [[The Netherlands|Dutch]] islands of [[Vlieland]] and [[Terschelling]]. The Vlie was the [[estuary]] of the river [[IJssel]] in medieval times. In [[1666]] the [[England|English]] Admiral [[Robert Holmes (admiral)|Robert Holmes]] burnt a Dutch merchant fleet of 130 ships ([[Holmes's Bonfire]]), that had taken refuge in the Vlie, mistakenly supposing the English could never find their way through the treacherous [[shoal]]s, so typical for the coastal waters there. Today it's still possible to reach the port of [[Harlingen, Netherlands|Harlingen]] by way of the Vlie. It is often supposed that the old Roman name for the lake that later would become the [[Zuiderzee]]: ''Lacus Flevo'', is etymologically related to the name "Vlie" and that perhaps Vlie was once the name of the entire lake and the big river that flowed out of it. In the 13th century large floods widened the estuary and destroyed much of the peat land behind, creating a continuous area of sand and [[mudflat]]s connecting the sea to the enlarged inland lake and obscuring the flow of the river. When the [[Afsluitdijk]] was created, the old streambed from the river to the sea was interrupted. [[Category:Landforms of the Netherlands]] {{coord|53|18|N|5|11|E|display=title|region:NL}} [[fy:Fly]] [[nl:Vlie]] [[nn:Vlie]]