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A Hundred Years Old Today, the Panama Canal Is About to Get a Lot Bigger

2014-08-16 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Part of our weekly "In Focus" series-stepping back, looking closer. Even after a century of constant use and the passage of more than a million ships, the great steel gates of the Miraflores locks, at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, still swing open with the precision of a Swiss watch. So exquisitely fitted and balanced are they that each of the 672-ton leaves can be moved by a pair of 25-horsepower motors. The same can be said for the massive Gatun locks on the Caribbean side. Engineered...

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