View of Antwerp with Frozen Schelde, 1593. Creator: Lucas van Valckenborch.
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View of Antwerp with Frozen Schelde, 1593. The River Scheldt in Antwerp is 400 metres wide. A river like that rarely freezes over - except during the mid-sixteenth century, when the so-called Little Ice Age was at its zenith.