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 | The winter-white Alaska shoreline provides a vivid contrast to the turquoise swirls in the black waters of the Gulf of Alaska. This burst of color in an otherwise black-and-white scene is caused by sediment, ground into fine powder by mountain glaciers and carried into the Gulf of Alaska through many waterways. The largest contributor of sediment shown in this photo-like image is the Copper Riv... |  | 08/30/2007 | 437 | 
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 | Two ships on the Manchester Ship Canal taking cargo off at Elesmere Port. Note the river Mersey next to the Canal with the tide out. This was a benfit for hte Canal, that ships could sail up the canal even when the tide was out. |  | 01/14/2007 | 149 | 



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 | Well over a century ago, the Farmington Canal was converted to a railroad. Eventually it became a part of the New Haven. The Farmington Canal was the longest canal ever built in New England. An 1846 charter was granted and the new road was opened between New Haven and Plainville in 1848.
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 | This marks the end of the Canal in Manchester, Salford and Trafford Park. Follow the Canal all the way to the sea via Warrington and Birkenhead. Spot some ships |  | 01/14/2007 | 147 | 



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 | This is where the ships enter the Manchester Ship Canal. The tide is out at the moment, but as soon as the tide comes in the ships can enter or exit the canal. Once in the canal they can safly move up and down the canal without worring about the level of the tide. |  | 01/14/2007 | 266 | 



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 | Mittelland Canal (near Minden), after 8th Air Force attack on 26th Ocotober 1944. Five barges were washed through the 80-feet breach in embankment cut by 851-ton load. Canal and adjected aqueduct were both drained. More barges are seen stranded on canal bottom. |  | 03/09/2009 | 1,703 | 
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 | See some ships in dock on the Great Manchester Ship Canal in the UK. the dock is on the Trafford Park side of the Canal. On the other side of the canal you can see the Lowry in the Salford Quays |  | 01/11/2007 | 146 | 
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 | The Lingqu Canal, dug in 214 B.C., is one of the three big water conservation projects of ancient China and the oldest existing canal in the world.It extends for 66 kilometers in Xing'an County to link up the Xiangjiang and Li rivers and the Changjiang and Zhujiang river systems. |  | 07/31/2005 | 253 | 



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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 | 686 | 



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 | File includes a path through the Erie canal and snapshots of locks on the canal with a couple of links to postcards on the locks. |  | 08/18/2005 | 337 | 



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 | The Suez Canal, west of the Sinai Peninsula, is a 163-km maritime canal in Egypt between Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea and Suez on the Red Sea. |  | 07/13/2005 | 2,583 | 



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 | The Cape May Canal was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the second world war as a protected route to avoid German submarines operating off Cape May Point and to become part of the Intracoastal Waterway System (ICW). The canal extends about three miles from Cape May Harbor to the Delaware Bay. |  | 08/03/2005 | 235 | 



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 | the Gatun Locks' view in the Panama Canal.
The Panama Canal extends across the Isthmus of Panama from Colon on the Atlantic Ocean (Caribbean Sea) side to Balboa and the Pacific Ocean. |  | 07/05/2005 | 3,629 | 



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