With a beam of 106 ft, the ships are the largest vessels that can fit through the Panama Canal. |
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The Panama Canal watershed boasts 560 bird species including the rufescent tiger heron and chestnut-mandibled toucan. |
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The first attempt to cut the Panama Canal was abandoned after thousands had died from yellow fever. |
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These were sold to the United States in 1904, but it was not until 1914 that the Panama Canal was opened for navigation. |
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The Panama Canal has fulfilled this function but is now saturated with cargo ships. |
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This artificial fairway built at the turn of the nineteenth century exceeds even the Panama Canal in number of ships passing. |
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Until the Panama Canal was built in 1914, it used to be the main port of call for ships travelling to Cape Horn. |
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The present link, which transits through the Panama Canal, includes port calls at Hong Kong, Shekou, Qingdao and Shanghai. |
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The best way to cross the isthmus by land is to ride the historic Panama Canal Railway from Panama City to Colon. |
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The U.S. military left firing ranges in the Panama Canal Zone littered with thousands of unexploded rounds. |
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The surveyors and researchers worked, roomed, and boarded at the picturesque site along the edge of the Panama Canal. |
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Born in 1949 in the United States-controlled Panama Canal Zone, now part of the Republic of Panama, Mr. Prince was trained as a figure painter. |
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The Panama Canal facilitates access to this market and to all Latin American markets. |
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The Pacific gate of the Panama Canal lies to the east of the Atlantic gate. |
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Panama: a USD 500m loan helped to finance the widening of the Panama Canal, a top priority project for the country. |
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What would happen if the locks on the Panama Canal were destroyed? |
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Founded by eleven countries, PAHO's first task was to eliminate yellow fever and malaria in the Panama Canal Zone. |
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It argues that American representations of Panama and Panamanians generated a recognizable Panama Canal Zone residential landscape. |
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A similarly narrow evaluation is under way for the planned expansion of the Panama Canal, which will allow supertankers to travel the waterway. |
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After it, she was towed through the Panama Canal and up to her new port far inland. In this section ¡Voten por mi! Which way will capital vote? |
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The US purchased them in 1917 as part of a strategic passage to the Panama Canal and they are an unincorporated territory of the US, with a republican-style democracy. |
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Panama Canal is barely 100 meters long, but 100 Meters Avenue runs nearly a mile. |
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Currently he is gearing up for a trek through the Panama Canal. |
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As we have proven, they can scoot through the Panama Canal from one coast to the other fairly easily. |
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On 14 May 1917, the regiment was sent to Panama in defense of the Panama Canal Zone. |
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Thailand is about to decide on digging a canal right across the country, just like the Suez or Panama Canal. |
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Other waterways, like the Panama Canal played an important role in the histories of many nations. |
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Only in transit of the Panama Canal and in Canada does the pilot have the full responsibility for the navigation of the vessel. |
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Until the Panama Canal opened in 1914, the Strait of Magellan was the main route for steamships traveling from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. |
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Routes vary, either travelling through the Caribbean and then into the Pacific Ocean via the Panama Canal, or around Cape Horn. |
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Many modern tankers are too wide to fit through the Panama Canal, as are a few passenger ships and several aircraft carriers. |
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By 2000, Panama controlled the Panama Canal which connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea to the North of the Pacific Ocean. |
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The central part of the river is dammed by the Gatun Dam and forms Gatun Lake, an artificial lake that constitutes part of the Panama Canal. |
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The expansion project on the Panama Canal and the free trade agreement with the United States are expected. |
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The second wave of black people brought to Panama came from the Caribbean during the construction of the Panama Canal. |
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Roughly a century after the opening of the Panama Canal, the prospect of a Nicaraguan ecocanal remains a topic of interest. |
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Famous concrete structures include the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal, and the Roman Pantheon. |
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The behavior and ecology of Slaty Antshrikes on Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone. |
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Born and raised in Panama Canal Zone, she was the daughter of the late Stanley and Marion Yost. |
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Panama also has the Panama Canal that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, and is a key conduit for international trade. |
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Would the American people agree to such control of the Panama Canal Zone? |
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Somewhere in there, I was seconded as well to the American forces and I served as chaplain to Fort Sherman, the Panama Canal Zone, for a jungle operations training course. |
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In the book-and in fact I included this part in the handout-I propose using a model based on the manner in which the territory of the Panama Canal Zone was divided. |
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Following the lead of the Panama Canal Commission, the ACP approved similar changes in admeasurement regulations and retained the U. S. toll rates in effect when the canal was transferred. |
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On another occasion St. Roch sailed from Vancouver to Halifax by way of the Panama Canal, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the continent of North America. |
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Mexico, the Panama Canal, the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas and Tuamotus islands in French Polynesia, Bora Bora, Samoa, Tonga. |
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The Diplomatic Letter: Mr Ambassador, seven years after regaining control of the Panama Canal, the Panamanian people has approuved in a national referendum on last October 22nd on a plan to widen the inter-ocean waterway. |
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At the present time neither the expansion of the Panama Canal nor the construction of Central America's dry canal has started, however, the clock is ticking and shippers are becoming impatient. |
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In the late 1960s Sturgis, a converted Liberty ship containing a 10MW nuclear reactor, was used to provide electricity to the Panama Canal Zone, which faced a power shortage. |
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It could even become the object of a more important development so as to benefit from the transhipment traffic connected with the enlarging of the Panama Canal. |
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The route led from Las Palmas towards Barbados, then on through the Lesser Antilles, the Caribbean and the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean. After that, it followed through Tahiti and Fiji toward Australia. |
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But in the long term a new deepwater port will be required to make the most of the explosion in regional traffic which the new Panama Canal is expected to generate. |
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In 1993, during the run-up to the handover, an article was added to the Panamanian constitution to guarantee the autonomy of the new Panama Canal Authority. |
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Punta Arenas, an important port before the opening of the Panama Canal, has stately mansions, museums and an old cemetery – Chatwin visited his uncle's grave here, as he brought his story to its conclusion. |
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The International press has widely reported on the extension of the Panama Canal and the approval of this by the referendum organised at the end of October. |
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If the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal, for example, are losing their importance because the majority of the shipping will go another way, that potential may move to another area. |
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We believe that technological and economic progress and the widening of the Panama Canal will accentuate the current trend towards larger vessels, and will bring about changes in the international routes. |
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It guarantees Canadian suppliers the right to bid on a broad range of goods, services and construction contracts carried out by Panama's federal government entities, including the Panama Canal Authority. |
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The CEO of the Panama Canal Authority considers that on completion of the enlargement of the Panama Canal in 2014, Panama will become the main maritime hub of the American continent. |
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Since 1914 it has been possible to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama Canal and, somewhat strangely, by sailing from west to east! |
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Ships carried priority cargoes such as lumber and other commodities through the Panama Canal, and stopped in the West Indies, New York, Halifax or St. John's before continuing in convoy across the Atlantic. |
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However, the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 and the outbreak of the First World War drove many of them away from the city or back to Europe. |
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The region sits in the line of several major shipping routes with the Panama Canal connecting the western Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. |
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Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man behind the Suez Canal, started a Panama Canal Company in 1880 that went bankrupt in 1889 in a scandal. |
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The last notable action involving the Joint Board concerned a Panama Canal Zone submarine base. |
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The voyage followed the North Atlantic Ocean, Panama Canal, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea route in a westerly direction. |
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Along with the narrow and sometimes treacherous Beagle Channel, these were the only three sea routes between these two oceans until the construction of the Panama Canal. |
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Having served as Marshall's G-3 officer for a little more than a year, Andrews was directed to take command of air assets located within the Panama Canal Zone. |
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The ship's first call will be Ponta Delgada in the Azores on 23 January before she sails to the Caribbean, transits the Panama Canal and heads for Hawaii and Australia. |
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England betrayed Europe's interests to America in a cowardly and shameful way over the Panama Canal question, so as to be left in 'peace' by the Yankees. |
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Therefore, the Canadian commercial marine transport industry does not anticipate the route as a viable alternative to the Panama Canal even within the next 10 to 20 years. |
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Fully loaded, Nordic Orion was too large to sail through the Panama Canal. |
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With one fireroom, one engine and one screw, the Ward limped all the way to Brooklyn Navy Yard via Ulithi, Guam, Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor, and the Panama Canal. |
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The transcontinental railroads in North America, as well as the Panama Canal that opened in 1914 in Central America, led to the gradual decrease in use of the Horn for trade. |
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