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.
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