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Famous bridges, dams and canals from around the world |
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 | This is the hydropower station in Neufinsing.
It was built from 1921 t o 1924. They constructed a railway ("the Moosbahn") to conway the workers from Munich to the building site. This tracks kann still be seen near the dam that devides the reservoir (Speichersee) in two parts, but they are grown over with weeds.
This reservoir was built to save the water from the meltin... |  | 07/16/2008 | 62 | 
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 | The Lake Walchen Power Plant is an hydroelectric power plant in "Kochel am See" in Bavaria.
Output: 134MW |  | 07/12/2008 | 203 |
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 | While looking for more villages, I found this resevoir. If you look closely, you can make out herds of animals around the vicinity, but I cant tell what species they are. | | 05/16/2008 | 184 |
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 | The Colorado River ('Aha Kwahwat in Mojave) is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1450 miles (2330 km) long, draining a part of the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. About the GE tour: Take a tour along the entire North American Colorado river from the spring lake in the Rocky Mountains more than 3000m above sealevel, through hundreds of canyons... |  | 05/12/2008 | 401 |
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 | A 36-kilometre (22-mile) structure connecting Jiaxing city near Shanghai to the port city of Ningbo in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
It is slightly shorter than the 38.4-kilometre Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge in the southern United States, which is often billed as the world's longest.
The 11.8 billion yuan (1.7 billion dollars) bridge cuts the length of t... | | 05/02/2008 | 913 |
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 | Storstrøm Bridge (Danish, Storstrømsbroen) is a road and railway arch bridge that crosses Storstrømmen between the islands of Falster and Masnedø in Denmark.
Together with Masnedsund Bridge it connects Falster and Zealand (Sjælland). It was the main road connection between the islands until the Farø Bridges were opened in 1985. It is still the railway connection between the islan... | | 04/09/2008 | 126 |
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 | A little dam built in Chile in 1911, in the middle of the Atacama desert, to provide water and electricity to the nitrate mines sityuated in the near area. Now is abandoned and the power turbines dismantled. |  | 03/06/2008 | 403 |
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 | Enable overlays to se specific maps or information on the Amazonas river. This is the additional overlay file for the Amazonas-tour of placemarks. It offers a series of image overlays containing various information on the Amazonas river. |  | 02/10/2008 | 442 |
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 | Worlds longest river! Try this extensive tour of 6,800 kilometers (4,250 miles) with over 250 placemarks (an average of one placemark every 28 kilometers, 17.4 miles) taking you on a flight over the landscape in Peru and Brazil from the Amazonas spring as a glacial stream on a snowcapped 5,597 meter (18,363 feet) peak called Nevado Mismi in the Peruvian Andes to the estuary, mouth of the river,... | | 02/10/2008 | 677 |
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 | Denmarks longest stream (or river....). Try this tour of more than 158 kilometers with more than 80 placemarks taking you on a flight over the landscape in Jutland, Denmark from the Gudenaa spring in Tisset Krat to Randers fjord. And as a bonus the quick flight over Randers Fjord from Randers Harbour to the exit to the Kattegat. About the GE tour: Please note that comments in this tour are main... | | 02/10/2008 | 158 |
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 | Take this tour on, The Kiel Canal, one of, if not the worlds busiest artificial waterway. The waterway from Danish/German baltic sea to the north sea surrounded by Germany, Holland, Belgium, England, Scotland, Norway, and Denmark covers a distance of approx. 98 km / 61 mi. | | 02/10/2008 | 383 |
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 | Welcome to the Suez canal tour. Take a tour over this artificial canal from the Gulf Suez, the Red Sea and the Indian ocean in the south, to Port Said in the north by the Mediterranean Sea. | | 02/10/2008 | 557 |
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 | The Morning Glory Spillway is considered an uncontrolled spillway which is located about 200 feet behind the Monticello Dam in California. The outside diameter of the hole is 72 feet and tapers down to about 28 feet. It's size enables it to consume 48,400 cubic feet of water every second when needed. | | 02/06/2008 | 528 |
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 | The Street moves up and down, and the river does too. | | 02/04/2008 | 199 |
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 | The Clyde River bridge carries thousands of vehicles a day. Roadway clearance on the bridge is 5.1 metres. Clearance for shipping is 20 metres above high water level. The span is lifted on demand, an average of 1000 times annually. | | 12/19/2007 | 110 |
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 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunkhannock_Viaduct
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson%2C_Pennsylvania
which explains:
A local landmark, the Tunkhannock Viaduct or Nicholson Bridge has been a center of lore and legend since its completion. The legend of a person being buried in the Nicholson Bridge has been etched in the mind of locals for years. Another legend ... | | 12/18/2007 | 141 |
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 | champlain bridge used in the filming of the 2000 movie, "what lies beneath", staring michelle pfeiffer and harrison ford. this movie was filmed in various vermont locations in the burlington area. | | 11/30/2007 | 157 |
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 | On of the famous covered bridges located in Madison County Iowa. |  | 11/24/2007 | 139 |
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 | System of 29 locks on Kennett and Avon Canal near Devizes |  | 11/20/2007 | 160 |
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 | Not often do you see a canal being dug. This one is a massive scale. Interesting commentary on Chinese development. | | 11/06/2007 | 262 |
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 | Europabrücke, or Europe's bridge, is a 777-m (2,549.2-ft.) long bridge spanning the 657-m (2,155.5-ft.) Wipp valley just south of Innsbruck, Austria. The A13 Brenner Autobahn passes over this bridge, above the Sill River, forming part of the main route from Austria to Italy across the Alps. Built between 1959 and 1963, it was once Europe's highest bridge, standing 192 m (629.9 ft.) high. | | 10/30/2007 | 310 |
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 | In 1808 Napoleon started to build a 53km Channel between the rivers Rhine and Maas/Meuse to harm the british economy. When Holland and France united he stopped the project in 1811. You can follow the stretch. | | 10/19/2007 | 304 |
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 | 73 mètres elevator of barges - 1350 tons |  | 10/06/2007 | 1,069 |
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 | A swing bridge that has turned to allow a boat to pass though near Hevossalmi, Finland. | | 10/03/2007 | 271 |
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 | A swing bridge that crosses the River Tyne in England. | | 10/02/2007 | 210 |
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