The Corinth Canal

The Corinth Canal is a canal connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland and therefore effectively making the former an island. Download high resolution version (1704x2272, 2478 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1704x2272, 2478 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Canal du Midi, Toulouse, France Canals are man-made channels for water. ... The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. ... The Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Aegina in Greece forms part of the Aegean Sea and defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth. ... Look up Aegean Sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Isthmus of Corinth is the narrow landbridge which connects the Peloponnesos peninsula with the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth. ... Peloponnesos (Greek: Πελοπόννησος, sometime Latinized as Peloponnesus or Anglicized as The Peloponnese) is a large peninsula in Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Isthmus of Corinth. ...

Overview

The canal is 6.3 km in length and was built between 1881 and 1893. It was planned by the Hungarian architects István Türr and Béla Gerster, who had also been involved with early surveys for the Panama Canal. Its construction was started by a French company, which ceased work after only the two ends had been dug, due to financial difficulties. A Greek company led by Andreas Syngrou took over the project and continued (and completed) the project, which is considered a great technical achievement for its time. It saves the 400 km long journey around the Peloponnesus for smaller ships, but since it is only 21 m wide, it is too narrow for modern ocean freighters. The canal is nowadays mostly used by tourist ships; 11,000 ships per year travel through the waterway. The low water depth of the canal is 8 meters. Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... An architect is a person licensed in the art of planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings, or more generally, the designer of a scheme or plan. ... The birth-place of Béla Gerster at Hlavná Street in KoÅ¡ice, Slovakia The memorial plate of Béla Gerster in his birth-place Béla Gerster or Vojtech Gerster (* October 20, 1850 in KoÅ¡ice - † August 3, 1923 in Budapest) was a notable engineer and canal architect. ... Two Panamax running the Miraflores Locks The Panama Canal (Spanish: ) is a major ship canal that traverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. ... Andreas Syngrou (Greek: ) (October 12, 1830–February 13, 1899) was a Greek banker from Constantinople and a philanthropist. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of deep water navigation. ... Cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship that carries goods and materials from one port to another. ...

Bridge submerging

At each end of the canal, seashore roads cross using submersible bridges that are lowered to the canal bottom to allow maritime traffic to pass. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 297 KB)Serial images of submersible bridge at the Corinth (Korinth) entrance to the Corinth Canal, taken July 6, 2005. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 297 KB)Serial images of submersible bridge at the Corinth (Korinth) entrance to the Corinth Canal, taken July 6, 2005. ... A moveable submersible bridge lowers the bridge deck below the water level to permit crossing ship traffic instead of raising it like a lift bridge or table bridge. ... A moveable submersible bridge lowers the bridge deck below the water level to permit crossing ship traffic instead of raising it like a lift bridge or table bridge. ...

The first attempt to build a canal at the place was carried out by the tyrant Periander or Periandros in 7th century BC. He abandoned the project due to its technical difficulties, and instead constructed a simpler and less costly overland stone ramp, named Diolkos, as a portage road. Remnants of Diolkos still exist today next to the modern canal. Periander Periander (Greek: Περίανδρος) was the second tyrant of Corinth, Greece in the 7th century BC. He was the son of the first tyrant, Cypselus. ... The Diolkos – from the Greek dia (across) and olkos(train) – was an artificial trackway, resembling a modern portage railway, constructed in ancient times to enable boats to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth, a neck of land 4 miles wide at its narrowest, which separated the Gulf of... For the Gentoo Linux package manager, see Portage (software). ...

In the late years of the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar foresaw the advantages of such a venture for his newly built Colonia laus Iulia Corinthiensis. See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century). ... For other uses, see Julius Caesar (disambiguation). ...

In A.D. 67, the philhellene Roman emperor Nero ordered 6,000 slaves to dig a canal with spades. The following year Nero died, and his successor Galba abandoned the project, since it appeared too expensive to him. Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s - 60s - 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Years: 62 63 64 65 66 - 67 - 68 69 70 71 72 Events Linus succeeds Saint Peter as pope. ... Nero[1] Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (December 15, AD 37 – June 9, AD 68), born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. ... Servius Sulpicius Galba (December 24, 3 BC – January 15, 69) was Roman Emperor from June 8, 68 until his death. ...

See also

• Portage railway

A portage railway is a short and possibly isolated section of railway used to bypass a section of unnavigatable river. ...

External links

• Periandros S.A. - Current operator of the Corinth Canal. Website contains photographs, fees and conditions for canal transit, and history of the site.
• Corinth Canal at NASA Earth Observatory
• Satellite view by Google Maps

Coordinates: 37°56′04″N, 22°59′02″E NASA Earth Observatory is an online publication of NASA where the public can access satellite imagery and scientific information about our planet for free. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...