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Key facts
- Location
- Götaland
- Country
- Sweden
- Maximum boat length
- 30 m (98 ft)
- Maximum boat beam
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Maximum boat draft
- 2.82 m (9.3 ft)
- Maximum boat air draft
- 22 m (72 ft)
- Maximum height above sea level
- 91.8 m
- Date of first use
- 26 September 1832
- Beginning coordinates
- 58°50′15″N 13°58′24″E / 58.837423°N 13.973451°E / 58.837423; 13.973451
- Ending coordinates
- 58°28′45″N 16°25′10″E / 58.479130°N 16.419368°E / 58.479130; 16.419368
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- canal
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Östergötland County
- Elevation
- 91.8
- Official website
- www.gotakanal.se
- Image
- Göta kanal - KMB - 16001000013273.jpg
- Length
- 190.5
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- Commons category
- Göta Canal
- terminus
- Sjötorp
- date of official opening
- 1832-00-00
- officially opened by
- Charles XIV John of Sweden
- has facility
- lock
- structural engineer
- Thomas Telford
- mouth of the watercourse
- Slätbaken
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Encyclopedic overview
58°29′54″N 16°10′24″E / 58.49827°N 16.17332°E / 58.49827; 16.17332
The Göta Canal (Swedish: Göta kanal) is a Swedish canal constructed in the early 19th century. The canal is 190 km (120 mi) long, of which 87 km (54 mi) were dug or blasted, with a width varying between 7–14 m (23–46 ft) and a maximum depth of about 3 m (9.8 ft). Traffic is limited to 5 knots in the canal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Göta Canal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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