Gaasterland

Gaasterland is a region in the Dutch province of Friesland. It is located in the municipality of De Friese Meren. The former municipalities of Gaasterland-Sloten and Nijefurd are part of Gaasterland.Gaasterland is located in the National Landscape of Southwest Fryslân. The region, unlike the predominantly flat meadow character of Friesland, is sloping and wooded. These reliefs used to be called gauzes. They are boulder clay ridges pushed up in the Saalian Ice Age, covered with a layer of sand. Because of the sand drifts here and elsewhere in the Netherlands, the Forestry Commission planted the area with forest around 1900. The boulder clay ridges were a natural sea wall against the water of the Zuiderzee and still are for the IJsselmeer. There are three cliffs in Gaasterland: Roode Klif, Mirnser Klif and Oudemirdumer Klif. There are a number of polders between the boulder clay ridges: Wielpolder, Huitebuursterpolder, Huitebuersterbûtenpolder and the Zuiderfennenspolder.

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