Editing Eastern Scheldt (section)

==History==
[[File:Roggenplaat-Eastern-Scheldt-Zeeland-2020-Luka-Peternel.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Roggenplaat [[shoal]]]]
During the [[Roman Era]] it was the major mouth of the [[Scheldt]] River. Before the [[St. Felix's Flood]] of 1530, it flowed north as a river from the east end of the [[Westerschelde]], turned west a little west of [[Bergen op Zoom]], and then west along the north edge of what is now the [[Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal]], and after that widened into an [[estuary]]. Parts of that lost land were later reclaimed, restricting part of the connection to the Scheldt River to a narrow channel called the Kreekrak, which silted up and became unnavigable. In 1867 the Kreekrak was closed off with a [[railway]] [[Embankment (transportation)|embankment]], connecting in the process the [[island]] of [[Zuid-Beveland]] to the [[mainland]] of [[North Brabant]]. From that moment on, the Oosterschelde lost its connection with the Scheldt, and is no longer functioning as an estuary.