Kiel Canaul

Nord-Ostsee-Kanal
Current map o Kiel Canal in Schleswig-Holstein
Specifications
Lenth	61 miles (98 km)
History
Construction began	1887
Date completit	1895 (1895)
Date extendit	1907–14
Geografie
Stairt pynt	Brunsbüttel (North Sea)
End pynt	Kiel (Easter Seas)

Locks at Brunsbüttel connectin the canal tae the River Elbe estuar, an thence tae the North Sea

The Kiel Canaul (German: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, leeterally "North-[tae]-Easter Sea canaul", umwhile kent as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98-kilometre (61 mi) lang freshwatter canaul in the German state o Schleswig-Holstein. The canaul wis feenished in 1895, but later widened, an links the North Sea at Brunsbüttel tae the Easter Seas at Kiel-Holtenau. A average o 250 nautical miles (460 km) is savit bi uisin the Kiel Canaul insteid o goin aroond the Jutland Peninsula. This no anerly saves time but an aw avoids stuirm-prone seas an haein tae pass throu the Øresund straits.

Besides its twa sea entrances, the Kiel Canaul is linkit, at Oldenbüttel, tae the navigable River Eider bi the short Gieselau Canaul.

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial steid
• Time-lapse movie "Kiel-Canal Transit In 9 Minutes" released bi UNITED CANAL AGENCY
• Movie aboot a conteener ship transitin the canal