Modern Wonder 7: Panama Canal
This is the finale of our Seven Modern Wonders - The Panama Canal:
This 48 mile passage cuts in half the Isthmus of Panama, downgrading a 14'000 mile journey around South America into a much more sensible 6'000. The Panama Canal earns it's place in the modern engineering wonders, having completely changed international shipping between the continents of North and South America.
Since the 16th century, man has planned the Panama Canal. The French gave it a very good try in 1880, but ultimately it was the United States that completed the canal in 1914. By the year 2002, 800'000 ships had crossed the canal, equaling around 203 million tonnes of cargo per year.
This image belongs to Jungle Boy and is part of a great series of photos depicting Central America.
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Labels: seven modern wonders
I will oppress my comical genius, and resist saying it is "wonder-ful".
Hope things are well in Blighty. See you in the distant future and hope that the "time we cross" is a good one.
Keep it blazing, bred-rin!
:)
Posted by
gn0 | Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Hey hey transpacific - glad to hear you are your usual self.
Hopefully that conversational Japanese has served you well.
I trust you have been taking lots of photos as I strongly requested! - if I get wind you haven't, I'm going to start pushing your junk piles out the flat windows - and you know the locals wont like that (because they really don't like anything).
The chanting has started each night from the balconies opposite by the way - you have "I'm England till I die!" at 2am to look forward to each night (for the next few months!)
Posted by
Adrian | Wednesday, May 10, 2006
My camera's gone mental. I have a few things I can show.
Ohh! I can't wait to get back to the 9-5 flow again :S.. and chanting! Religious 2am chanting. Hmm not sure if it's better or worse than the domestics.
Posted by
gn0 | Thursday, May 11, 2006