Panama Canal Course Day 2 final
The Panama Canal “Making the dirt fly”. The Spanish American war pointed out the need for a canal through the Western Hemisphere.
A SECOND MIRACLE? At Suez, the dirt removed from the canal was piled along or near the banks. That had worked so they saw no reason why it would not work.
The Panama Canal Greatest Shortcut on Earth!. Why Build a Canal? A trip from San Francisco to New York is 7,872 miles shorter using the canal instead.
The Panama Canal. Vaco Nunez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513, first thought of such a waterway then. In the.
