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Famous bridges, dams and canals from around the world |
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 | A three-way foot bridge located in Midland, MI. |  | 01/04/2009 | 437 | 
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 | The Y-Bridge is an old highway bridge over the James River located at Galena, Missouri and opened in 1927. It is named the Y-Bridge because it is shaped like the letter "Y". The bridge is such that (going east), one could then either head north or south upon reaching the east end, where the highway was between a steep bluff on the east and the river on the west. It was built to accomm... | | 01/04/2009 | 254 |
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 | Situated in the former USSR republic of Kazakhstan.
Dike Kokaral,is a (concrete and sand) dike across a narrow stretch of the Aral sea, splitting off the North Aral sea from the much larger South Aral sea. The work was completed in August 2005.
Actually, the result is so positive, that the authorities of Kazakhstan, thanks with the help of the World bank is building an higher di... |  | 01/04/2009 | 117 |
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 | Y-shaped bridge in Zanesville, Ohio. Claimed to be the only Y-shaped bridge in the world. |  | 01/04/2009 | 163 |
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 | this is the bridge that Richard Crafts disposed of his wifes,Helle, body by putting it through a woodchipper pointing over the edge on a snowy night. | | 01/02/2009 | 267 |
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 | Eastern bridge of the inhabited bridges of Europe, the particularity of this one is that it is fully covered with a roof. The History says that it has been rebuilt in 1874, due to a flood, and, in 1931 due to a fire.
The sixth bridge will not appear in my collection. the satellite view is so bad... It is situated in the French Brittany, close to the western point of the country. Its na... | | 12/27/2008 | 209 |
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 | Here is the second one of my collection
In the Medieval period, all over Europe, bridges constructed with wood or stones got houses built on them. The simply reason was, that, when a house doesn´t "touch the land", there is no tax to pay.
For more information about this bridge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A4merbr%C3%BCcke | | 12/27/2008 | 144 |
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 | The inhabited bridge of Frome, is the littlest of the six witch still exist in Europe. It is situated not too far of the Pulteney bridge in Bath.
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 | The Pulteney bridge is one of the six last inhabited bridges of the continent.
One of them is ever posted in Google Earth Hacks. It is the "ponte vecchio" in Florence, Italy.
For more information about Pulteney bridge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulteney_Bridge | | 12/27/2008 | 125 |
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 | I couldn't find any info on it, but this bridge sure looks awesome! | | 12/05/2008 | 206 |
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 | In March 2005, the Mubarak Pumping Station - centerpiece of Egypt's ambitious Toshka Project to reclaim half-a-million acres of desert - was named one of the five most outstanding civil engineering achievements of the year by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In addition to the pumping station itself, the Toshka Project also involves the construction of 50km (31 miles) of main tra... | | 12/04/2008 | 319 |
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 | Black and white vertical aerial photograph taken by the RAF on 11/05/1951 centred on SJ27194183 at a scale of 1:10000. The photograph includes Pontcysyllte Aqueduct as well as part of Llangollen Rural community in Wrexham. | | 10/30/2008 | 97 |
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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 | 162 |
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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 | 300 |
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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 | 313 |
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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, 2333 kilometers long, draining a part of the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The river's course takes you from the source in the impressive snow-covered mountain landscapes, over dams and lakes, through the deep eroded canyons and dry desert areas to ... | | 05/12/2008 | 1,025 |
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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 | 1,102 |
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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 | 707 |
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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 | 529 |
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 | Amazon river, Río Amazonas - Worlds largest river! Try this extensive tour of more than 6400 kilometers (3977 miles) with more than 400 placemarks (an average of more than one placemark every 16 kilometers, 10 miles) taking you on a flight over the landscape in Peru and Brazil from the Amazon river spring as a glacial stream on a snowcapped 5597 meter (18363 feet) peak called Nevado Mismi in th... |  | 02/10/2008 | 1,245 |
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 | The River Guden, the Gudenaa (in Danish: Gudenåen). Denmarks longest river. Try this tour of 176 kilometers with more than 190 placemarks taking you on a flight over the landscape in Jutland, Denmark from the River Guden spring in Tinnet bushes to Randers Fjord. As a bonus take a flyover of Randers Fjord from Randers to the exit to the Kattegat sea. Also included is the old 1800 Century barge t... | | 02/10/2008 | 493 |
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 | The Kiel Canal (German: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal), until 1948 known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, is an approximately 100 kilometer (62 mile) long canal in the German Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein that links the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of 250 nautical miles (463 kilometers, 288 miles) is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around the Jutland pe... | | 02/10/2008 | 692 |
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 | The Suez Canal is a large artificial canal in Egypt, west of the Sinai Peninsula. It is 163 km (101 miles) long and 300 m (984 ft) wide at its narrowest point, and runs between Port Said (Bu-r Sa'i-d) on the Mediterranean Sea, and Suez (al-Suways) on the Red Sea. The canal allows two-way water transportation, most importantly between Europe and Asia without circumnavigation of Africa. Before it... | | 02/10/2008 | 1,047 |
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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 | 775 |
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 | The Street moves up and down, and the river does too. | | 02/04/2008 | 284 |
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