This extremely interesting film shows a shipment of coal making its way on the Regent’s Canal through various locks from east of central London through the city to the rural areas north of London. The film states that the canal was then 100 years old, indicating a construction date of 1824.

This seven-mile long canal connects the Indian River (Lagoon) to the Mosquito Lagoon. In 1852, the first chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, Lt. Horatio Governeur Wright, supervised the construction of a plank board-lined 10 foot wide by 2 feet deep waterway after Congress grudgingly approved the expenditure following decades of debates over Congress’s…

Built in the 1920s, the Bridge of Lions, with its distinctive pride of lions placed at the four corners of the bridge, occasionally causes administrative headaches for the Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND), the state sponsor for the federally controlled Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in Florida. The narrow opening and the minimal height limits the size…

On July 4, 2011, the City celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first wade-in by seven (7) African American residents wading in at the City’s segregated beaches. The celebration reenacted the the first wade-in. The wade-ins lasted for six (6) weeks. The City filed suit in the Broward County Courthouse to stop the wade-ins. A…

The 2014 boat show held in Dubai displayed more than 400 yachts and super yachts, including one of the longest super yacht in the world at 290 feet, from 50 different countries. The event attracted 26,000 visitors from 120 different countries. The United Arab Emirates is thought to be the 6th richest country by Gross…

Originally posted on The Geography Lady: Canals: Crowded waters | The Economist. Hewn out of the land during the Industrial Revolution, they were once Britain’s main arteries of trade. The rise of railways and roads made them redundant and many were left to moulder, alongside the old industrial areas of many cities. But, as those…