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Famous bridges, dams and canals from around the world |
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 | The West Gate Bridge, Melbourne, Australia. On the 15th October 1970, the bridge collapsed during its construction, killing 35 workmen. |  | 10/07/2005 | 247 | 
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 | forced water pipeline ans her road with switchbacks |  | 10/05/2005 | 252 |
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 | One of the more beautiful bridges in the world. Built 400 years ago by a Turkish architect, it was destroyed in the war (Croatia / Bosnia). Fortunatelly, it was rebuilt again. |  | 10/04/2005 | 445 |
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 | A new hydro power under construction near Brasilia, Brazil. |  | 10/01/2005 | 168 |
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 | A 3200m long bridge, built in 1990, in 10 months. | | 10/01/2005 | 387 |
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 | The Jacques Cartier Bridge is a steel truss cantilever bridge crossing the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal. | | 09/28/2005 | 200 |
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 | The Grande Dixence dam, in the canton of Valais in Switzerland, is at 285 metres high one of the worlds tallest dams. It holds back a lake, the Lac des Dix, around 16 km long.
The top of the dam is at an altitude of 2,365 metres in a steep mountain valley. Tunnels bring the water to three power stations in the Rhone valley over 1,800 metres below.
The dam is situat... |  | 09/26/2005 | 607 |
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 | This placemark shows a narrowboat in the process of navigating a lock on the Trent and Mersey canal in Staffordshire, UK | | 09/26/2005 | 169 |
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 | The Puente de las Americas is the only bridge that connects the north and south American land masses. | | 09/24/2005 | 363 |
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 | Scrivener Dam is the dam for Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. To the west of it is the National Zoo and Aquarium | | 09/24/2005 | 157 |
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 | This structure iste the frontier ( generally a fence 4 to 5 meters high ) beetween the spanisch town of Ceuta and Moroocco. It is aimed to stop illegal immigrants from entering Spain and E.U.. |  | 09/24/2005 | 294 |
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 | The “Alagado” (Flooded) is a small dam that generates energy for one of the industrias greaters of foods of Latin America. It is placed in the city of Erval Velho, SC, Brazil and its lake is tourist attraction mainly at the time of the summer. |  | 09/24/2005 | 112 |
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 | Canal of Panama, makes the linking of the Atlantico Ocean with the Pacifíco Ocean behind its canal lock that crosses the country | | 09/23/2005 | 601 |
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 | Home to a heck of a high bungi-jump! (And railing to prevent those who wish to jump without attachment from doing so...) | | 09/23/2005 | 243 |
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 | This up-in-the-sky bridge is just outside Cape Town. I've often wondered what would happen if I went straight off the side... | | 09/22/2005 | 271 |
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 | Wiew of two bridges in Washington, DC. | | 09/21/2005 | 172 |
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 | A Popular Recrational Dam for residents of Pretoria and Johannesburg
http://www.southafrica.net/heritage/heritage_routes/nw_hartebeespoort.cfm | | 09/20/2005 | 228 |
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 | One of the most pleasant ways to discover Amsterdam is doing it by boat! |  | 09/19/2005 | 586 |
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 | The Somerset Dam wall is a mass concrete gravity type, using a volume 203,000 cubic metres of concrete. This type of construction resists the thrusts of the water by its weight alone. | | 09/18/2005 | 287 |
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 | Aqueduct carrying the Union Canal over the M8. | | 09/17/2005 | 161 |
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 | The longest stone bridge in England, built to cross the River Trent and the marshland each side. There has been a bridge here since the 13th century. The southernmost point reached by the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie before they retreated to Scotland | | 09/17/2005 | 129 |
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 | One of the first pre-cast concrete structures in the world, carries the railway 120 feet above the River Tamar, with foundations sunk up to 47 feet. | | 09/17/2005 | 168 |
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 | The southern portal of Blisworth Tunnel, just outside Stoke Bruerne. | | 09/16/2005 | 125 |
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 | The northern portal of Blisworth, second longest canal tunnel in England after Standedge Tunnel | | 09/16/2005 | 135 |
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 | Bow Locks on the once busy but now neglected "Bow Backs" waterways in the East End of London. Currently designated a Priority One restoration project by British Waterways. | | 09/15/2005 | 102 |
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