Panama Canal

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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[edit]

  • English: SS Kroonland transits the Panama Canal on 2 February 1915. She was the largest passenger ship to that date to transit the canal
  • English: Bridge of the Americas.
    Español: Puente de las Américas
  • English: Miraflores Locks.
    Español: Esclusas de Miraflores
  • English: A "mule"
  • Panama Canal carrying lead.jpg
  • Panama Canal tying lead to cable.jpg
  • English: Watching the clearance
  • English: approaching Gaillard Cut
  • English: Gaillard Cut
  • 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.
  • English: Gatun Locks.
    Español: Esclusas de Gatún
  • English: Gatun Locks.
    Español: Apertura de las esclusas de Gatún
  • Quality images
    English: The Thor is a drilling and blasting barge used to deepen and widen the main ship route of the Canal.
  • English: Picture of a ship at the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal
  • Missouri panama canal.jpg
  • Svenska: Panamakanalens huvudkontor ligger i Balboa, Panama.
  • Lëtzebuergesch: Eng Schleis vum Pananamakanal
  • English: The 'Puente de las Americas', crossing the Panamá Canal to the North of Panamá City, ssen from the foot of Cerro Ancón.
  • Deutsch: Sicht vom Cerro Ancón (Panama City) auf den Panamakanal

1904-1914 Construction[edit]

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

1939-1940 Excavation[edit]

  • English: 1939 Excavation.

2007-2014 Expansion[edit]

  • English: Dredging of Atlantic Navigation Access Channel
  • English: Breydel Dredge at the south Access Channel in the Pacific entrance
  • English: Aereal view of the Pacific Construction Site
  • English: Pacific Construction Site of the Third Set of Locks - Progress as of Feb 2010.

conceptual views[edit]

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

Maps[edit]

  • English: Map of the Panama Canal
  • English: Map of Panama with the Canal
  • English: Panama Canal, courtesy NASA
  • English: The Panama Canal Zone
  • English: This elevation map of the Panama Canal, prepared in 1923, shows the topography of the region through which the canal was cut.
  • Deutsch: Historische Karte des Panamakanals und des Nicaragua-Kanals
  • Català: Un projecte alemany per a fer el Canal de Panamà a l'any 1888
  • Čeština: Goethalsova mapa Gatunské pr(ehrady
  • Español: Tráfico por el Canal de Panamá (años 1980 - 2005, texto en francés).
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