Canals Canals The Agra canal is an important Indian irrigation work, available ...more on Wikipedia about "Agra canal"
The Alexandra Canal is a 3.9 km long tidal waterway linking the Shea’s Creek channel in Alexandria to the Cooks River and Botany Bay. The Canal is one of Sydney’s most historic, if almost forgotten, waterways. The Alexandra Canal is one of only a handful of navigable canals ever constructed in Australia, and the only one to be situated in an urban setting. It remains the longest built foreshore in Sydney. It is also a part of Sydney that has only rarely been seen or appreciated. Progressively cut off by surrounding development after the Second World War, sidelined by commercial and residential growth elsewhere in the city, and heavily polluted from catchment wide industrial and stormwater run off, the Canal has slid slowly into obscurity and disuse. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexandra Canal, Australia"
The Bahr Yussef, which roughly translates from Arabic as the waterway of Joseph, is a canal which connects the Nile River with Fayyum in Egypt. This was originally in prehistoric times a natural offshoot of the Nile which created a lake to the west. Around 2300 BC, this was made into a canal by being widened and deepened by Amenemhat IV of the 12th dynasty to create Lake Moeris. The canal was built into the natural incline of the valley, creating a channel 15 km long and 5 m deep that sloped into the Fayyum depression. The canal was controlled by the Ha-Uar dam, which was actually two dams that regulated the flow into the lake and out of the Nile. As the surrounding area changed at about 230 BC, the Bahr Yussef eventually became neglected, leaving most of Lake Moeris to dry up creating the depression that exists today and the modern province of Al Fayyum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bahr Yussef"
The Buckingham Canal is a salt water navigation canal, running parallel to the Coromandel Coast of South India for 420 km, from Krishna District in Andhra Pradesh to Villupuram District in Tamil Nadu. The canal connects most of the natural backwaters along the coast to the port of Chennai (Madras). It was constructed by the British, and was an important waterway during the British Raj. ...more on Wikipedia about "Buckingham Canal"
Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. There are two main types of canal: irrigation canals for the delivery of water; transportation canals for passage of goods and people. Some rivers have also been 'canalised' to make them navigable. This article is about transportation canals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canal"
A canal lock or navigation lock is a device that lifts or lowers boats, barges or other vessels from one water level to another. Locks used on canals allow the negotiation of hills without recourse to lengthy detours, or the use of tunnels or aqueducts. The same kind of locks are used on rivers, often in connection with dams since there is generally a difference in water level between the upstream side of a dam and the downstream side. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canal lock"
A canal pound is the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks. Canal pounds can vary in length from the non-existent, where two or more immediately adjacent locks form a lock staircase, to many miles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canal pound"
A canal ring is the name given to a series of canals that make a complete loop. The term has become particularly prevalent since the use of canals for pleasure cruising. A boat hire company benefits from being on a canal ring because its customers do not have to return on the same waterways they went out on. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canal ring"
The Chengkuo Canal is a large canal in China completed in 246 BC by the ancient kingdom of Qin. The canal was originally part of a ploy by the king of Han intended to drain the resources of his rival. However the Qin successfully completed the canal and the plan back-fired as it irrigated thousands of square kilometres of additional agricultural land, providing the kingdom with sufficient resources to increase the size of its already massive armies. To this day the land surrounding the Chengkuo Canal is extremely fertile. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chengkuo Canal"
The phrase 'contour canal' generally refers to an artificially-dug navigable canal which closesly follows the contour line of the land it traverses in order to avoid costly engineering works such as cutting a tunnel through higher ground, an embankment over lower ground, or a canal lock (or series of locks) to change the level of the canal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Contour canal"
The Corinth Canal is a canal connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland and therefore effectively makes it an island. ...more on Wikipedia about "Corinth Canal"
The Danube-Oder-Canal (German, Donau-Oder-Kanal; Polish: Kanał Odra-Dunaj) was a planned and partially-constructed artificial waterway of the Vienna Lobau that was supposed to stretch from the Morava River to the Oder River at Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Opole Voivodship, Poland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Danube-Oder-Canal"
Dnieper-Bug Canal is a ship canal that connects Dnieper river and Western Bug. It provides navigational access between the Baltic Sea and Black Sea water systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dnieper-Bug Canal"
Dragets kanal is a Swedish canal in the province of Södermanland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Draget Canal"
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Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater ( May 21, 1736– March 8, 1803) (also the 6th Earl of Bridgewater) was a British nobleman. He did not marry, and the dukedom expired with him, although the earldom was retained through John William Egerton. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater"
The Ganga canal is a canal of the Ganga river which was a brainchild of Proby Cautley. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ganga canal"
The Göta Canal is a Swedish canal constructed in the early 19th century. The canal stretches all the way from Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast, combined with the river Göta älv and the Trollhätte canal, through the great lakes Vänern and Vättern, in parallel with Motala ström, and to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Göta Canal"
The Grand Canal ( ) of China, also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal ( ) is the largest ancient canal or artificial river in the world. The oldest parts of the canal date back to 5th century B.C. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grand Canal of China"
The Grand Canal begins on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland. It continues on to the River Shannon with various branches, including a link to the River Barrow waterway at Athy. Until 1950 the Grand Canal Company had ownership of the canal the Transport Act, 1950 transferred the canal to Córas Iompair Éireann. This situation continued until the Canals Act, 1986 transferred the canal to the Office of Public Works. Under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, a new all-Ireland body called Waterways Ireland was established in 1999 and assumed responsibility for inland navigable waterways including the Grand Canal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grand Canal of Ireland"
The Grand Canal (italian: Canal Grande) is Venice's largest waterway. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grand Canal of Venice"
A guillotine lock is a type of canal lock. The lock itself operates on the same principle as any normal pound lock, but is unusual in that its gates are a single piece, usually of steel, and slide vertically upwards when opened to allow a boat to traverse underneath. Their resemblance to the French guillotine is obvious. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guillotine lock"
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Hjälmaren Canal ( Swedish: Hjälmare kanal ) is a 13 kilometres long canal that connects Lake Hjälmaren with Lake Mälaren in Sweden. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hjälmare kanal"
The Kanał Piastowski ( Polish for " Piast Canal") is a canal in Pomerania, Poland that connects the city of Szczecin with the Świna river. The canal is approximately 12 km long and ten metres deep. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kanał Piastowski"
The Lingqu Canal ( ) is located in Xing'an County, near Guilin, in Guangxi Province, China. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lingqu Canal"
Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds better known as Linant Pasha (Lorient, France, November 23, 1799 – Cairo July 9, 1883 was an explorer of Egypt and the chief engineer of Egypt's public works, 1831–1869, and the chief engineer of the Suez Canal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds"
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