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List Of Transcontinental Canals
The following is a list of transcontinental canals and waterways, that is, ''canals'' or ''canal proposals'', which allows waterway traffic to span across a continent or subcontinent. List See also * List of interoceanic canals * Lists of waterways#Canals, Lists of canals References {{DEFAULTSORT:Transcontinental canals Lists of canals, Transcontinental Ship canals International canals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow under atmospheric pressure, and can be thought of as artificial rivers. In most cases, a canal has a series of dams and locks that create reservoirs of low speed current flow. These reservoirs are referred to as ''slack water levels'', often just called ''levels''. A canal can be called a navigation canal when it parallels a natural river and shares part of the latter's discharges and drainage basin, and leverages its resources by building dams and locks to increase and lengthen its stretches of slack water levels while staying in its valley. A canal can cut across a drainage divide atop a ridge, generally requiring an external water source above the highest elevation. The best-known example of such a canal is the Panama Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi River System
The Mississippi River System, also referred to as the Western Rivers, is a mostly riverine network of the United States which includes the Mississippi River and connecting waterways. The Mississippi River is the largest drainage basin in the United States. In the United States, the Mississippi drains about 41% of the country's rivers. From the perspective of natural geography and hydrology, the system consists of the Mississippi River itself and its numerous natural Tributary, tributaries and Distributary, distributaries. The major tributaries are the Arkansas River, Arkansas, Illinois River, Illinois, Missouri River, Missouri, Ohio River, Ohio and Red River of the South, Red rivers. Given their flow volumes, major Ohio River tributaries like the Allegheny River, Allegheny, Tennessee River, Tennessee, and Wabash River, Wabash rivers are considered important tributaries to the Mississippi system. Before the Mississippi River reaches the Gulf of Mexico, it runs into its distributary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Plateau
The Iranian plateau or Persian plateau is a geological feature spanning parts of the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. It makes up part of the Eurasian plate, and is wedged between the Arabian plate and the Indian plate. The plateau is situated between the Zagros Mountains to the west, the Caspian Sea and the Köpet Dag to the north, the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus Mountains to the northwest, the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf to the south, and the Indian subcontinent to the southeast. As a historical region, it includes Parthia, Media, Persis, and some of the previous territories of Greater Iran."Old Iranian Online" , University of Texas College of Liberal Arts (retrieved 10 February 2007) The Zagros form the plateau's western boundary, and its eastern slopes may also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranrood
Iranrud () was a plan to build a canal from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf. The former Soviet Union was eager to realize this project because its only warm water ports led to the Strait of Istanbul and the Dardanelles, which were under the control of Turkey, a NATO country. There were two different proposals for the route of the canal: * directly to the Indian Ocean through Dasht-e Lut, or; * from the Caspian to Lake Urmia and after that to the Persian Gulf. History The idea of linking the two coasts via Iranian territory was first introduced in the 19th century. The first professional study was carried out in the 1960s. The first iteration of this plan was written by in 1968. According to his plan, some link must be made between the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea. Three places were suggested: the Hamun-e Jaz Murian basin and two other places in Dasht-e Lut and Dasht-e Kavir. Many years later, the same plan was suggested to Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was prime minister at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volga–Don Canal
Lenin Volga–Don Shipping Canal (Russian language, Russian: Волго-Донской судоходный канал имени, ''В. И. Ленина, Volga-Donskoy sudokhodniy kanal imeni V. I. Lenina'', abbreviated ВДСК, ''VDSK'') is a ship canal in Russia. It connects the Volga and the Don (river), Don at their closest points. Opened in 1952, its length is , of which is through rivers and reservoir (water), reservoirs. The canal forms a part of the Unified Deep Water System of European Russia. Together with the lower Volga and the lower Don, the canal provides the shortest navigable connection between the Caspian Sea and the world's oceans via the Sea of Azov, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea. History There has been a trade and military route between the Volga and Don River, Don rivers since early human history. The presence of the fortified settlement Tanais in the Don River delta since the time of the Bosporan Kingdom, 438 BC– 370 AD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manych Ship Canal
The Manych Ship Canal is a canal between the Black Sea lagoon the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea. , proposals were being considered to turn it into a larger canal known as the Eurasia Canal. If built, this would be a multipurpose water-resources system and a limb of international transport. A proposed design would deepen the canal to and widen it to . This would afford a traffic capacity of more than 75 million tons of cargo per year, and vessels could have a freight-carrying capacity of up to 10,000 tons. ("Again about the Eurasia Canal" – Arasha Bolaev) "Pravitelstvennaya Gazeta" (The Government Newspaper), 12 july 2008 Projections for development Projections for development of the freight turnover in southern Russ ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasus
The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have conventionally been considered as a natural barrier between Europe and Asia, bisecting the Eurasian landmass. Mount Elbrus, Europe's highest mountain, is situated in the Western Caucasus area of Russia. On the southern side, the Lesser Caucasus includes the Javakheti Plateau and the Armenian highlands. The Caucasus is divided into the North Caucasus and South Caucasus, although the Western Caucasus also exists as a distinct geographic space within the North Caucasus. The Greater Caucasus mountain range in the north is mostly shared by Russia and Georgia as well as the northernmost parts of Azerbaijan. The Lesser Caucasus mountain range in the south is mostly located on the territory of sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurasia Canal
The Eurasia Canal (, ''Kanal "Evraziya"'') is a proposed 700-kilometre-long (430 mi) canal connecting the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea along the Kuma-Manych Depression. Currently, a chain of lakes and reservoirs and the shallow irrigation Kuma–Manych Canal are found along this route. If completed the canal would also link several landlocked countries in Asia with the open seas through the Bosphorus. If completed, the Eurasian Canal will become the second longest canal in the world after the Grand Canal (China), Grand Canal in China (1776 km long). The canal is intended to provide a shorter route for shipping than the existing Volga–Don Canal system of waterways; it would also require fewer Ship lock, locks (or lower-Ship lock#Rise, rise locks) than the Volga-Don route. Manych Ship Canal is the existing canal system that would be the likely route for the Eurasian Canal. Potential shipping route The route of the canal, as usually proposed, would follow the thalweg (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suez Canal
The Suez Canal (; , ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, Indo-Mediterranean, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt). The canal is a key trade route between Europe and Asia. In 1858, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps formed the Suez Canal Company, Compagnie de Suez for the express purpose of building the canal. Construction of the canal lasted from 1859 to 1869. The canal officially opened on 17 November 1869. It offers vessels a direct route between the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic and northern Indian Ocean, Indian oceans via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, avoiding the South Atlantic and southern Indian oceans and reducing the journey distance from the Arabian Sea to London by approximately , to 10 days at or 8 days at . The canal extends from the northern terminus of Port Said to the southern terminus of Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Deep Waterway System Of European Russia
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Unified Deep Water System Of European Russia
The Unified Deep Water System of European Russia () or UDWS () is a system of inland waterways in Russia linking the White Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Volga River, Moscow, the Caspian Sea and—via the Sea of Azov—the Black Sea. In 2010, UDWS carried 70 million tons of cargo and 12 million passengers, making up two-thirds of overall inland waterway traffic volume in Russia. There are 60 common-use ports and quays in the UDWS, including three international ports (two in Moscow and one in Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast), so Moscow is sometimes called "the port of the five seas". The depth is mostly guaranteed at only and some sections are even shallower, such as Gorodets–Nizhny Novgorod at and Kochetovsky Bagayevskaya at . There are plans to increase depth of these sections to 4 m. The system includes these waterways: *Neva River *Lake Ladoga *Svir River *Lake Onega *Volga–Baltic Waterway — connects Lake Onega to the Volga River; built in the early 19th century as Mariinsk Canal Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
