Panama Canal http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com The Panama Canal - A Modern Miracle Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:01:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 en Panama Canal & Gatun Lake http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/31/panama-canal-gatun-lake/ http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/31/panama-canal-gatun-lake/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:55:04 +0000 animals http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/31/panama-canal-gatun-lake/ A beautiful palm tree and view on the Panama Canal & Gatun Lake.

Panama Canal & Gatun Lake

Photo by pjoem.

]]> http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/31/panama-canal-gatun-lake/feed/ The Bay of Panama along the Panama Canal http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/30/the-bay-of-panama-along-the-panama-canal/ http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/30/the-bay-of-panama-along-the-panama-canal/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:54:08 +0000 animals http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/30/the-bay-of-panama-along-the-panama-canal/ The Bay of Panama as seen from the Panama Canal. Can you spot the Bridge of the Americas?

The Bay of Panama along the Panama Canal

Photo by Gerryd.

]]> http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/30/the-bay-of-panama-along-the-panama-canal/feed/ Panama Canal Administration Building http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/28/panama-canal-administration-building/ http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/28/panama-canal-administration-building/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:53:10 +0000 animals http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/28/panama-canal-administration-building/ EDIFICIO DE ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL CANAL DE PANAMÁ - This building was inaugurated on July 15, 1914, exactly a month before the Canal itself.

Panama Canal Administration Building

Photo by ginger.jengibre.

]]> http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/28/panama-canal-administration-building/feed/ U.S. Navy and the Panama Canal http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/26/us-navy-and-the-panama-canal/ http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/26/us-navy-and-the-panama-canal/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:52:21 +0000 animals http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/26/us-navy-and-the-panama-canal/ U.S. Navy navigating through the locks of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s. The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, established November 18, 1903 between the United States and Panama, relinquished dominant control of the Canal Zone to the United States. In recent years, a new Panama Canal Treaty has been put in place. Since 2000, this new treaty has returned control of the Canal to the Panamanian government. However, under the new treaty, if the efficiency of the Canal deteriorates, then the United States reserves the right to intervene and reestablish order within the Canal.

U.S. Navy and the Panama Canal

Photo by Wendy Chandler.

]]> http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/26/us-navy-and-the-panama-canal/feed/ Panama Canal Colon http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/25/panama-canal-colon/ http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/25/panama-canal-colon/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:50:22 +0000 animals http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/25/panama-canal-colon/ Observe the tiny bus and tiny car crossing the small bridge over the Panama Canal, and when you look further to the blue freight ship 26 meters (86 feet) higher up, it might fill you with wonder or give you the shivers.

Panama Canal Colon

Photo by lyng883.

]]> http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/25/panama-canal-colon/feed/ Gatun Locks Panama Canal http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/23/gatun-locks-panama-canal/ http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/23/gatun-locks-panama-canal/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:48:52 +0000 animals http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/23/gatun-locks-panama-canal/ A ship passing through the Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal. The Canal has three sets of locks (Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun), each of which has two lanes. The locks operate as water lifts which elevate ships in their transit of the channel across the Continental Divide to the level of Gatun Lake, which is 26 meters above sea level, and then lower them back to sea level on the opposite side of the Isthmus.

Gatun Locks Panama Canal

Photo by lyng883.

]]> http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/23/gatun-locks-panama-canal/feed/ A diagram of the Panama Canal http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/21/a-diagram-of-the-panama-canal/ http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/21/a-diagram-of-the-panama-canal/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:48:51 +0000 animals http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/21/a-diagram-of-the-panama-canal/ The Panama Canal transverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean

A diagram of the Panama Canal

Photo by Mr Wayne.

]]> http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/21/a-diagram-of-the-panama-canal/feed/ Getting through the Panama Canal http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/15/getting-through-the-panama-canal/ http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/15/getting-through-the-panama-canal/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:21:19 +0000 animals http://canal.panamaphotoblog.com/2007/10/15/getting-through-the-panama-canal/ A heavily loaded freight ship getting through the Panama Canal.

Photo by Souer99.

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