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Vinony's link graph records 276 inbound references to Caledonian Canal, and connects out to Scottish Gaelic, lock and Fort William.
The entry is geolocated on the map in river, across 12 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1822 establishments in Scotland, Canals in Scotland and Canals opened in 1822.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Maximum boat length
- 45.72 metres (150 ft)
- Maximum boat beam
- 10.67 metres (35 ft)
- Maximum boat draft
- 4.1 metres (15.5 ft)
- Maximum boat air draft
- 35 metres (115 ft)
- Status
- Navigable
- Navigation authority
- Scottish Canals
- Original owner
- Caledonian Canal Commissioners
- Principal engineer
- Thomas Telford
- Start point
- Inverness
- End point
- Fort William
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Scottish Canals
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- canal
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Highland
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.scottishcanals.co.uk/our-canals/caledonian-canal
- Image
- Neptune's Staircase 2017 left.jpg
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- Commons category
- Caledonian Canal
- historic county
- Inverness-shire
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Encyclopedic overview
The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland. The canal was constructed in the early nineteenth century by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford.
Route
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caledonian Canal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
12 mapped locations