Netherland Research Paper

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This research project is about the country Netherlands, in which are where my ancestors are from! The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam. The main languages of the Netherlands are Dutch, German, French and English. The Netherlands is on the continent of Europe.

On January 30, 1648 was founded in Fort Orange by the Dutch West India Company. Sinterklaas and Black Peter ( is the Netherlands Santa and his helper) , the holiday itself is celebrated on the December 5 when gifts are exchanged. Children sing songs to Sinterklaas at the top of their lungs until they hear a knock on the door. If they have been good, they will find a bag filled with gifts just outside the door.They go door to door like Halloween and get money in their bags instead …show more content…

These songs have catchy, simple rhythms and melodies, and are always built up on couplets and refrains. Themes are often sentimental and include love, death and loneliness.
They use euros (there money) in the Netherlands and all across Europe. Rotterdam has one of the biggest container harbour, a lot of the containers from Europe are shipped to Rotterdam before being shipped to North and South America. Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam is the busiest airport in Europe and gets over 300,000 visitors every 12 hours. Sand , Gravel, salt, limestone, peat, petroleum and natural gas are the main natural resources in the Netherlands.

In the summer the Netherlands especially Holland it is very hot and dry with little rain at all. In the winter they get tons and tons of rain (see in next sentence) throughout late September to early March which is half of the year. There yearly amount of rainfall is up to 76.5 centimetres of rain which is over 2 and a half rulers! The average temperature in the Netherlands is about 10 degrees celsius. Dry periods, wet periods hurricanes and precipitation are the main effects in the Netherlands climate …show more content…

Out of this whole research project my favourite part of it was when I found out that the Netherlands windmill is so popular because about 100 years ago it was first invented in Holland to generate power, after it came out in Holland it started spreading across the world even Canada! I had called my grandpa to get lots of the information that you saw before this so I would like to give a big thank you to him for helping me with more than I could have got out of the internet. Some day when i’m older I would like to explore Holland with my grandpa Rocky who lived in Holland from when he was 0-7 years old and then moved to Strathmore, Alberta, he hasn’t been to the Netherlands since

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