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Wikipedia: The Panama Canal is a 77 km (48 mi) ship canal that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific ocean and a key conduit for international maritime trade. Annual traffic has risen from about 1,000 ships in the canal's early days to 14,702 vessels in 2008, displacing a total 309.6 million Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System (PC/UMS) tons. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the canal had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, replacing the long and treacherous route via the Drake Passage and Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America.
![[Construction of locks on the Panama Canal, 1913]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/PanamaCanal1913a_s.jpg "Construction of locks on the Panama Canal, 1913")
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![[lock gate at Miraflores]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/WorkerAtMirafloresLocksPanamaCanal_s.jpg "lock gate at Miraflores")
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![[A bucket dredge works to deepen and widen the canal.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Panama_Canal_Bucket_Dredge_s.jpg "A bucket dredge works to deepen and widen the canal.")
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![[SS Kroonland at the Culebra Cut while transiting the Panama Canal on 2 February 1915]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Kroonland_in_Panama_Canal_2C_1915_s.jpg "SS Kroonland at the Culebra Cut while transiting the Panama Canal on 2 February 1915")
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![[Satellite image showing location of Panama canal]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Panama_A2003087_1850_250m_s.jpg "Satellite image showing location of Panama canal")
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![[Miter lock gate at Gatun]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Gatun_lock_gate_s.jpg "Miter lock gate at Gatun")
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