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unusual facts about Waterway



1789 in Ireland

24 October – Royal Canal Company incorporated to construct a waterway from Dublin to the River Shannon.

Aabybro Municipality

The municipality included several small islands in the Limfjord, the waterway that separates the main body of the Jutland peninsula from the island of Vendsyssel-Thy, including Tagholme.

Allagash River

Development in much of the area surrounding the Allagash Wilderness Waterway is restricted by the Seven Islands Land Company, a private land management company that owns approximately 1 million acres (4,000 km²) of forest in northern Maine.

Anglo-Persian War

The British then shifted their focus north up the Persian Gulf, invading Southern Mesopotamia by advancing up the Shatt Al Arab waterway to Mohammerah (future Khorramshahr) at its junction with the Karun River, short of Basra.

Arvand

Arvand Free Zone, a zone that surrounds Khorramshahr, Abadan, and Minoo Island along the Arvand waterway in Iran

Arvand Free Zone

The Arvand Freezone is a 155 square kilometer industrial and security zone that surrounds Khorramshahr, Abadan, and Minoo Island along the Arvand waterway (known as Shatt al-Arab in Iraq) in Khuzestan Province, Iran.

Briarcliffe Acres, South Carolina

As soon as it was possible after acquiring the property the Ellsworths dug a yacht basin on the adjacent Intracoastal Waterway, on the land side of US Highway 17.

Bridges in Peoria, Illinois

The Illinois River is part of a waterway system that begins in New Orleans, Louisiana and exits the Atlantic Ocean via Chicago and the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

Canal de Tancarville

The Canal de Tancarville is a 25 km waterway in France connecting the English Channel at Le Havre to the Seine at Tancarville.

Casiquiare canal

Charles Marie de La Condamine, seven months later, was able to give to the Académie française an account of Father Roman's voyage, and thus confirm the existence of this waterway, first reported by Father Acuña in 1639.

Chaliyar

During late 19th century and early 20th century, the Chaliyar was extensively used as a waterway for carrying timber from the forest areas in and around Nilambur to the various mills in Kallai of Calicut city.

Dearne and Dove Canal

The idea of creating a navigable waterway from the River Don to Barnsley along the course of the River Dearne was first proposed in 1773 by the Marquess of Rockingham.

Dębowo Lock

As part of the Augustów Canal the lock was the first waterway (Summit level canal) in Central Europe to provide a direct link between the two major rivers, Vistula River and the Neman River, and it provided a link with the Black Sea to the south through the Oginski Canal, Dnieper River, Berezina Canal and Dvina River.

Grand Union

Grand Union Canal, a waterway running from London to Birmingham in the United Kingdom

IMO numbers

ENI number, a comparable system for European barges and other inland waterway vessels

John Clifton Wright

He is also an active Government lobbyist and promoter for keeping the Great Loop open for navigation through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that links the Great Lakes to the Illinois river and the Mississippi river basin, where an Asian Carp invasion threatens a hard lock closure of the USCG's Electronic Fish Barrier on the connecting navigable waterway.

Lamma Channel

East Lamma Channel, a waterway on the east of Lamma Island in Hong Kong

Langon, Gironde

Langon is also a pivotal point in the Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit, the waterway and road route constructed to allow the transportation of the fuselage sections and wings of the Airbus A380 airliner to the final assembly point in Toulouse.

Langworth

The Environment Agency gives flood warnings for the Barlings Eau waterway, which runs just north-west of the village.

Lempa

Lempa River, Central American waterway flowing 422 km from its sources between Sierra Madre and Sierra del Merendón in southern Guatemala (30.4 km), where it is known as Río Olopa, through Honduras (31.4 km) and El Salvador (360 km) to Pacific Ocean; forms small part of Honduras-El Salvador boundary, where it is called Río Lempa

Madre de Dios River

The Madre de Dios is an important waterway for the department of Madre de Dios, particularly Puerto Maldonado, the largest town in the area, and the capital of the department.

Manton, Kentucky

In the springtime these waters would flood, providing a waterway which lead first to the Salt River, then to the Ohio River and thence by flatboat the boatsmen could make their way to New Orleans.

Moshenskoye, Novgorod Oblast

One of the waterways between Novgorod and the basin of the Volga River run along the Msta and the Uver, and the foundation of Moshenskoye was presumably related to the existence of this waterway.

Naestved Municipality

Susåen ("The Suså River"), Zealand's largest waterway and longest river, runs through Næstved.

Navigability

Kollam-Kottapuram (in Kerala) stretch of West Coast Canal (410 km) along with Champakara canal and Udyogmandal canal in February, 1993 as National Waterway 3

Haldia Allahabad stretch of the Ganges Bhagirathi Hooghly river system (1620 km) in October 1986 as National Waterway 1

Neighborhoods in San Francisco

The portion of the waterway adjacent to the ballpark is often referred to as McCovey Cove.

Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal

The first sod was turned by the Lord Ward on 31 December 1855 and the canal opened on 20 August 1858, providing a waterway connection between the Black Country towns of Netherton and Tipton.

Paul F. Markham

According to the testimony of Ted Kennedy, after the accident, he, Markham, and Joseph Gargan returned to the waterway to try to rescue Kopechne.

Poland, Indiana

After completion, Tom and Marsha plan to launch the boat in Kentucky Lake, then take the Tombigbee waterway to the Gulf of Mexico, then on to see the world.

Pueblo Culhuacán

This canal was a main waterway connecting Mexico City with the agricultural areas of Chalco and Xochimilco with flat bottomed canoes called trajineras carrying produce to the city.

Quequén Grande River

Discovered in 1748 by Jesuit missionaries José Cardiel and Thomas Falkner, they originally named the waterway San José; its eventual name originated from the Araucanian Kem Kem ("gully").

Riverboat casino

Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 several states are now allowing these casinos to be built on land within certain limits from a navigable waterway.

Salland

The most important of these waterways is of course river IJssel; others include the Zwarte Water and (Overijsselse) Vecht rivers; the Regge stream, which flows through Twente to spend its last few kilometers in Salland before ending in the Vecht near Ommen; the Schipbeek stream; and the Soestwetering stream, which merges with a number of lesser streams near Zwolle to form river Zwarte Water.

Shannon–Erne Waterway

Once restored, the canal was renamed, becoming the Shannon–Erne Waterway, to reflect its purpose of linking the two river systems, and it was opened by Dick Spring, the Irish Foreign Minister and Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at the time.

Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation

Doncaster lock was extended in 1909 and 1910, and improvements were made at Doncaster, Rotherham and Tinsley, but trade declined significantly with the onset of the First World War, as many of the steam trawlers which had previously used coal from the waterway were requisitioned by the Admiralty, and were fuelled elsewhere.

Shore Leave

Shore lead, oceanographic term for a waterway opening between pack ice and shore

SpaceShaft

More about the combined effects of wind loads and upthrust is discussed later, under the section of "Heave and roll behavior" which would describe the similar of a spar-buoy on a waterway and on the section "Wind force and Coriolis", likewise for bending and deflection on the structure.

Stanley Harbour

As such this is the busiest waterway of the Falkland Islands and frequently visited by cruise ships, freighters and navy vessels, although this has lessened since the building of the two airports at RAF Mount Pleasant and Port Stanley Airport.

Streatham, Victoria

In the 1840s the site was known as Fiery Creek, after the waterway by which it is located, but was named after Streatham, London, England, in 1852.

Strip farm

Ribbon farm, a long, narrow land division, usually found in series lined up along a waterway

Thevara

Thevara is a link to Thevara Ferry which links the place like Kumbalam, Nettoor to other areas of Kochi city via waterway.

Tin Can Bay, Queensland

The seaside town is a popular holiday destination and launch pad to the aquatic playground of the Great Sandy Strait - a pristine waterway protected by World Heritage listed Fraser Island.

Trent and Mersey Canal

Wedgwood, intent to have a waterway connection to his potteries, managed to send his proposal to parliament, with the help of two of his friends, Thomas Bentley, and Dr. Erasmus Darwin.

Twelve Mile Creek

Bronte Creek, also known as Twelve Mile Creek, a waterway in Hamilton, and Halton regions, Ontario, Canada

Walter R. Tucker III

He also worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to secure federal funding to repair the long neglected Compton Creek, thus eliminating the possibility of costly flood damage to the homes and property on either side of the waterway.

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

"Brief Encounters on the Inland Waterway" (1966) - This recounts a journey from Massachusetts to Florida on the Kennedy yacht crewing for their captain, Frank Wirtanen (whose name had been borrowed for the character of an American intelligence officer in Mother Night).

Ward Cove

The town of Ward Cove (also Wacker, Wacker City, or Wards Cove) is located on the waterway.


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