Panama Canal

The Panama Canal is a large canal, 51 miles (82 kilometers) long, that cuts through the isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Views

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  English: SS Kroonland transits the Panama Canal on 2 February 1915. She was the largest passenger ship to that date to transit the canal
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  English: Bridge of the Americas.

  Español: Puente de las Américas
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  English: Miraflores Locks.

  Español: Esclusas de Miraflores
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  English: A "mule"
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  English: Watching the clearance
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  English: approaching Gaillard Cut
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  English: Gaillard Cut
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  Español: Lago Gatún

  English: Gatun Lake, pictured here in 2000, is having difficulty supplying water for the canal's operation.

  Français : Les navires suivent un chenal balisé entre les îles.
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  English: Gatun Locks.

  Español: Esclusas de Gatún
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  English: Gatun Locks.

  Español: Apertura de las esclusas de Gatún
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  English: The Thor is a drilling and blasting barge used to deepen and widen the main ship route of the Canal.
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  English: Picture of a ship at the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal
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  English: A bucket dredge operating in the Panama Canal.

  Français : Une drague à godets entretient le canal.
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  Deutsch: Gatun-Schleuse
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  Deutsch: Schleuse
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  Français : Des voiliers faisant route au sud entrent la coupe Banana sur le lac Gatún, voiles hissées pour bénéficier des alizés.
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  Svenska: Panamakanalens huvudkontor ligger i Balboa, Panama.
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  Lëtzebuergesch: Eng Schleis vum Pananamakanal
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  English: The 'Puente de las Americas', crossing the Panamá Canal to the North of Panamá City, ssen from the foot of Cerro Ancón.
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  Deutsch: Sicht vom Cerro Ancón (Panama City) auf den Panamakanal

1904-1914 Construction

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  English: Pedro Miguel Locks under construction at the Panama Canal
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  English: The famous Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, 1907
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  English: Construction of Panama Canal, Isthmian Historical Society, ca1913
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  Français : Le mur central des écluses de Gatún pendant sa construction en 1910. L'homme debout en bas à droite illustre sa taille.
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  Français : Les principaux moules à l'avant-plan pendant la construction : à l'arrière, les moules des murs.
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  Česky: Práce na Culebra Cut v prosinci 1904
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  English: Work on lock, Panama Canal, November 1910

1939-1940 Excavation

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  English: 1939 Excavation.

2007-2014 Expansion

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  English: View of principal projects in Panama Canal Expansion 2007-2014
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  English: Dredging of Atlantic Navigation Access Channel
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  English: Breydel Dredge at the south Access Channel in the Pacific entrance
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  English: Aereal view of the Pacific Construction Site
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  English: Pacific Construction Site of the Third Set of Locks - Progress as of Feb 2010.

conceptual views

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  English: Filling and Empting System for the Third Set of Locks
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  English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
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  English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
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  English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
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  English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
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  English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks

Maps

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  English: Map of the Panama Canal
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  English: Map of Panama with the Canal
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  English: Panama Canal, courtesy NASA
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  English: The Panama Canal Zone
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  English: A diagram illustrating the layout of the Panama Canal.
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  English: This elevation map of the Panama Canal, prepared in 1923, shows the topography of the region through which the canal was cut.
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  Deutsch: Historische Karte des Panamakanals und des Nicaragua-Kanals
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  Français : Coupe à travers une écluse, montrant la construction des murs et les canaaux de remplissage et de vidange.
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  Català: Un projecte alemany per a fer el Canal de Panamà a l'any 1888
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  Česky: Goethalsova mapa Gatunské pr(ehrady
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  Español: Tráfico por el Canal de Panamá (años 1980 - 2005, texto en francés).