Kiel Canaul
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Nord-Ostsee-Kanal | |
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![]() Current map o Kiel Canal in Schleswig-Holstein | |
Specifications | |
Lenth | 61 mile (98 km) |
History | |
Construction began | 1887 |
Date completit | 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 mile (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.[1]
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- ↑ Sheffield, Barry (1995). Inland Waterways of Germany. St Ives: Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson. ISBN 0-85288-283-1.
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Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Kiel Canal. |
- Offeecial steid Archived 2003-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Time-lapse movie "Kiel-Canal Transit In 9 Minutes" Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine released bi UNITED CANAL AGENCY
- Movie aboot a conteener ship transitin the canal Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine