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The Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage, the Strait of Magellan or the Beagle Channel. Its construction was one of the largest and most difficult ...
The Isthmus of Panama. The Isthmus of Panama (Spanish: Istmo de Panamá) [1] is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America. It contains the country of Panama and the Panama Canal. Like many isthmuses, it is a location of great geopolitical and strategic importance.
Panama – between North America and South America (Panama Canal) Parry Channel – between Baffin Bay in the east and Beaufort Sea in the west, of Canada; Pearse Canal – between Alaska and islands of British Columbia; Pentland Firth – between the Orkney archipelago and the mainland of Scotland
A strait is a water body connecting two seas or two water basins. While the landform generally constricts the flow, the surface water still flows, for the most part, at the same elevation on both sides and through the strait in both directions. In some straits there may be a dominant directional current through the strait.
The western portion of the spine, the Cordillera Central, extends from Costa Rica to a low saddle near the Panama Canal. Within the Cordillera Central are three ranges. The lofty Cordillera de Talamanca extends east from Costa Rica and contains Panama's highest peak, Volcán Barú, at 3,475 meters (11,401 ft).
The Panama Canal cost the United States about $375 million, including $10 million paid to Panama and $40 million paid to the French company. Although it was the most expensive construction project in US history to that time, it cost about $23 million less than the 1907 estimate despite landslides and an increase in the canal's width.
The sandy isthmus or tombolo "The Neck" connects North and South Bruny Island in Tasmania, Australia. An isthmus (/ ˈ ɪ s m ə s, ˈ ɪ s θ m ə s /; [1] pl.: isthmuses or isthmi) [2] is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated. [3]
It remains an active project (the geography has not changed), and in the 2010s Chinese involvement was developing. Abandoned DeLesseps equipment, Panama jungle. The second choice for a Central American canal was a Panama Canal. The De Lesseps company, which ran the Suez Canal, first attempted to build a Panama Canal in the 1880s. The difficulty ...