The Pacific Oceans: The Panama Canal

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The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, this is also one of the seven modern wonders of the World. In the past years, there are more than 850,000 ships and 250 million tons of cargo that had passed through the Panama Canal. The United States began building the canal in 1904 and completed in 1914, after France unsuccessfully build a canal through the Isthmus of Panama in 1800s.

The canal is a man-made waterway, when they were constructing the Panama Canal there were casualties and frustration, managerial mistakes, but it succeed and became one of the greatest engineering accomplishments in history. The first travel occurred in 1914, and the canal is still an important shipping route still used today.

The Panama Canal

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