CANALS
Q1. What is a Canal?
A narrow stretch of sea connecting places or seas, which otherwise, reducesa circutous route to the same place or sea, reducing a considerable distance of navigation. A man made course/diversion of water on a river dug for either navigation, irrigation etc., is also called a Canal.
Q2. Which is the most famous logistically important canal in the world?
Suez Canal - Egypt - West of Sinai Peninsula.
Q3. Suez Canal connects?
Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea.
Q4. Which modern day historical General actually ordered for the feasibility study for Suez Canal?
Napoleon in 1799, after conquering Egypt, but decided to pend it for economic reasons.
Q5. Who designed and built the Suez Canal and in which year?
French engineer Ferdinand De Lessops in 1869.
Q6. What are the physical specifications of Suez Canal?
Length 193.3 Km; Breadth 380 feet and Depth 35 Feet.
Q7. By which convention, the Suez Canal was allowed to be used for all purposes?
Convention of Constantinople in March 1888, guaranteed the rights of passage for all ships during war and peace.
Q8. Which action of former President of Egypt, led to a warring situation in 1956 between Egypt and Britain?
Dispute over the control of Suez Canal between British and Egypt, made the President of Egypt, Abdul Nasser to nationalise the canal, which led to the warring situation in 1956.
Q9. Who played the role of a mediator between Egypt and British and brought the situation to peace and how was he honoured later?
Lester B. Pearson - Canadian Secretary of State, arranged for the first UN Peace Keeping Force to be present there, negotiated the peace settlement between them and prevented the war happening. For his efforts Pearson was honoured with Nobel Peace Prize in 1957.
Q10. Suez Canal was closed during which period and for what reasons?
1967 to June 1975 due to Arab Civil War.
Q11. Suez Canal reduces the distance between Mumbai and Southamption UK by?
Around 6500 Kms.
Q12. Where is Panama Canal?
Central America - connecting Atlantic Ocean and east and west coast of America.
Q13. Panama Canal connects which two oceans?
Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Q14. Panama Canal was opened in?
1914 (for traffic).
Q15. Approximately how many people perished in the process of construction of Panama Canal?
About 28000.
Q16. What are the physical specifications of Panama Canal?
77 Kms length; 500 feet wide and 45 feet deep.
Q17. What is the type of shipping vessel that can alone traverse through the Panama Canal?
Panamax.
Q18. What was the first ship to travel through Panama Canal?
Ancon - Ship of USA.
Q19. Where is Kiel Canal?
Between London and Baltic Ports.
Q20. What are the physical specifications of the Kiel Canal?
90 Kms in Lenth and 40 feet deep.
Q21. Kiel Canal connects which seas?
North Sea with Baltic Seas.
Q22. Kiel Canal was opened in?
1895
Q23. Which country is most dependent on this canal for navigation?
Germany - but for this canal, the navigation had to be through the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark.
Q24. What is the artificial water way that is busiest in the world?
Kiel Canal.
Q25. Which treaty internationalised Kiel Canal?
Treaty of Versailles after World War I excepting for brief period of closure in 1936 by Adolf Hitler.
Q26. Which is the world's oldest, longest and an artificial canal/river?
Grand Canal, China.
Q27. During which dynasty the Grand Canal of China was built?
Sun Dynasty between 581 to 618 AD.
Q28. Where is Sulphur Channel?
Between Greenland and Northwest tip of Hong Kong island.
Q29. What is India's most prestigious and biggest canal project?
INDIRA GANDHI CANAL - started in 1958 and completed in 1984. It connects from Harike Barrage, the confluence of Sutlej and Beas rivers in Punjab and runs for 650 Kms, through Haryana and Punjab and serves Rajasthan for 45o KMs, to improve the ecology of the Rajasthan deserts.
Q30. Where is English Channel?
It is in Europe separating England from Northern France. It connects North sea with Atlantic ocean. It is about 564 Kms in length and 240 wide at its widest part and 34 Kms at the narrowest part. At the shortest point it connects Dover in England with Calais in France.
