THE 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal will be marked in August this year. The 48-mile ship canal connecting the Atlantic (via the Caribbean) and Pacific oceans was opened on August 15, 1914.
Work on the canal was begun by France in 1881, but it was abandoned due to engineering problems and deaths caused by disease. The project was taken over by the US in 1904 and completed in ten years.
The canal has been named one of the seven wonders of the modern world by The American Society of Civil Engineers.
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