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Corinth Canal

Tuesday, 27th June 2006 by Alex

Following on from yesterday’s Rio-Antirio Bridge, right at the very end of the Gulf of Corinth is the Corinth Canal, a 6.3 kilometre long canal which technically turned the Peloponnesian peninsula into an island upon its completion in 1893. Although the canal is only 21 metres wide it’s considered a great technical achievement for its time, and saves small ships the 400 km long journey around the Peloponnesus.

Corinth Canal

At each end of the canal there are unique submersible bridges which can be lowered to the bottom of the canal to allow the boats to get past! Very cool. You can see a sequence of photos showing the bridge in action on the Wikipedia page.

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8 Responses to 'Corinth Canal'

  1. 1. Michael says: June 27th, 2006 at 2:17 pm

    Saw this canal when I went to Greece in college. It truly is an engineering masterpiece! Check out this photo (not mine, unfortunately)…

    http://www.rcip.com/gloryquest/Corinth%20Canal-ship.jpg

  2. 2. SpedAngel says: June 27th, 2006 at 2:34 pm

    I’m not sure if it’s just me, but the Submersible_bridge wikipedia link is just taking me to a blank wikipedia page. I looked at an old version of the page and found the picture link, so here it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BridgeSubmerging.jpg
    “into an island upon its completion”

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    3. Alex says: June 27th, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    Thanks spedangel, grammar corrected. Link seems fine to me though, maybe it is just you?

  4. 4. Tim says: June 27th, 2006 at 3:11 pm

    Link didn’t work for me either, but thanks for the new link SpedAngel! Definitely Cool.

  5. 5. SpedAngel says: June 27th, 2006 at 10:24 pm

    now the link works for me again, so I’m not sure why it was down for a while there. But hurrah, very cool bridge!

  6. 6. Luz Yung says: August 15th, 2006 at 4:43 am

    Gentlemen,
    I am the search of an old friend who deferred payment in Pireus-Greece,I lost the address of it.Where I can ask for aid to find my friend?
    I will give to all the necessary information.
    Gentlemen,please,they help to find my friend,this is very important.

    Thank You.
    Luz.
    Brazil

  7. 7. Luz Yung says: August 15th, 2006 at 4:44 am

    Gentlemen,
    I am the search of an old friend who deferred payment in Pireus-Greece,I lost the address of it.Where I can ask for aid to find my friend?
    I will give to all the necessary information.
    Gentlemen,please,they help to find my friend,this is very important.

    Thank You.
    Luz.
    Brazil
    portal.11@uol.com.br

  8. 8. ryan john says: May 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    so great..i never saw like this canal before….enginnering master piece?

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