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Suez Canal: Red Sea
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In Egypt, the formal opening of the 100 mile long Suez Canal - 10 years after construction work began. The canal connects the Mediterranean with the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea and allows ships travelling between Europe and Asia to avoid sailing thousands of extra miles around the southern tip of Africa. The canal was designed by Frenchman Ferninand De Lesseps.
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Suez Canal joins the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. Its entrance from Mediterranean is at Port Said city. Its entrance from Red Sea is at Port Tewfeak in Suez city. The distance from Port Said up to Suez Gulf is 161.6km. the total length in canal sectors is 122.8km. the drifted sectors through the lakes is 38.8km.
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For a better understanding of Suez Canal immigration, additional taxonomic and biological investigations are required. Comparison of racial characteristics of immigrant organisms could help to clarify the question of the origin and relationship between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean populations. It is expected that in some cases, exchange of fauna and flora may have taken place before the opening of the Suez Canal as a result of the elevation of seal levels and undulations of the Isthmus during the Pleistocene.
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As the longest canal in the world without locks, the Suez Canal links the Mediterranean and Red seas across the Isthmus of Suez. Although Eygpt's ancient rulers devised a means of connecting the Nile River to the Red Sea, it was only in modern times that French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps developed a workable design for the 101-mile (163-km) canal, which opened in 1869. In 1956, the canal became the site of an international crisis involving Britain, France, Egypt, and Israel. Today the canal remains a strategic point of movement of the world's oil supply.
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The Suez Canal is a maritime canal in Egypt between Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea and Suez on the Red Sea. The canal is located west of the Sinai Peninsula. It is 163 Kilometers long and 300 meters wide at its narrowest point.
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The modern Suez canal that was built in the 19th century connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean in Egypt. The Isthmus of Egypt is so narrow at that point that it suggested the building of a canal to many people in antiquity, and in fact many such canals were built. Apparently, they were all shallow waterways, that took advantage of existing rivers and waterways in the Nile delta, and led to the Nile rather than the Mediterranean sea. The southern section of the modern canal runs along the ancient routes.
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