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Island in Zeeland province, Netherlands, in
the estuary of the Scheldt. area 200 sq km/80
sq mi capital Middelburg towns Flushing
(Vlissingen) features flat and for the most
part below sea level products dairy,
sugar-beet and other root vegetables history
a British force seized Walcheren in 1809;
after 7,000 of the garrison of 15,000 had
died of malaria, the remainder were
withdrawn. It was flooded by deliberate
breaching of the dykes to drive out the
Germans 1944-45, and in 1953 by abnormally
high tides.