What Is the Panama Canal?

What Is the Panama Canal?By: Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ Illustrator: Tim Foley Series: What Was? Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48 mile long channel was dug through Panama, creating the worlds most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!

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