suez canal

     

The Suez Canal ( transliteration: Qanāt al-Suways), is a large man-mae canal in Egypt, west of the Sinai Peninsula. It is 163 km (101 miles) long and 300 m (984 ft) wide at its narrowest point, and runs between Port Said (Būr Sa'īd) on the Mediterranean Sea, and Suez (al-Suways) on the Red Sea.

Trivia about suez canal

  • Completed in 1869, it has also been known by its nickname "the Highway to India"
  • While the pharaohs built ancient wonders, Ferdinand de Lesseps built this "modern" one
  • In 1869 it cut the travel distance between London & Bombay by over 4,000 miles
  • Opened in 1869, part of it follows the route of a canal dug 12 centuries earlier
  • The ship seen here is moving through this artificial waterway completed in 1869
  • From Port Said to Al-Qantara, this canal passes through Lake Manzala, a lagoon
  • The Middle East's first suspension bridge, the Mubarak Peace Bridge, opened in 2001 & crosses this canal
  • In its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, Israel was guaranteed unrestricted use of this waterway
  • When this canal opened in 1869, suddenly Africa was completely surrounded by water
  • One cause of the 1956 Arab-Israeli War was the nationalization of this by Egypt
  • When this waterway opened in 1869, it brought Arabia into much closer touch with the outside world
  • As a result of the Six-Day War of 1967, this Middle East canal remained closed until 1975
  • Yemen's city of Aden serves as a refueling center for ships traveling through this canal
  • In 1869 the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed & this canal opened in the Mideast
  • In 1979 Israel sent its first cargo ship through this waterway
  • Port Said is this waterway's northern terminus
  • The opening of this in 1869 cut 4,000 miles & weeks of sailing off trips
  • An 1888 treaty said this canal was neutral & would remain open even during a war
  • The 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty allowed Israel access to this man-made waterway
  • This canal between the Arabian desert & the Sinai peninsula formally opened Nov. 17, 1869
  • The 1st formal U.N. peacekeeping force was formed in 1956 to deal with a dispute over this Middle Eastern waterway
  • This waterway was first excavated around the 1800s B.C.; excavation began on the present version April 25, 1859
  • When it opened, it cut the distance from London to Bombay by 5,100 miles
  • World condemnation made the 1956 British-French occupation of this canal a disaster
  • In April 1859, at Port Said, digging began on this artificial waterway
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser started a Cold War crisis when he nationalized this on July 26, 1956
  • In March Egypt reopened this waterway after a 4-month blockage
  • Walt Whitman's "A Passage to India" was written partly in celebration of this canal
  • On July 26, 1956 Egypt seized control of this geographic feature from its French & British owners
  • 1956: The Brits & the French invade Egypt in response to the nationalization of this
  • With capital of about $40 million set in place, work was begun on this waterway in April 1859

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