What is Kiel Canal?
[[File:Eisenbahnbrücke Rendsburg.jpg|thumb|250px|{{center|High canal bridge in [[Rendsburg]]}}]] The '''Kiel Canal''' is a [[waterway]] in the [[Germany|German]] state of [[Schleswig-Holstein]]. The [[canal]] connects the [[North Sea]] from the River [[Elbe]] to the [[Baltic Sea]] at [[Kiel]].<ref name=WustSOI>{{cite web |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/overhaul-of-kiel-canal-threatens-future-of-port-of-hamburg-a-903880.html |title=Risky Renovations: Kiel Canal Overhaul Threatens Hamburg Port |author=Christian Wüst |date=6 June 2013 |publisher=Spiegel Online International |access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref> The Canal is about {{convert|100|km}} long.<ref name=WustSOI/> The canal was first opened to traffic on 19 June [[1895]].<ref name=Global>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/de-kaiserliche-marine-kaiser-wilhelm-canal.htm |title=Kaiser Wilhelm Canal / Kiel Canal |publisher=GlobalSecurity.org |access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref> It was then improved to allow the largest [[warship]]s to pass through. The formal reopening of the improved canal was on June 24, [[1914]].<ref name=Global/> The Kiel Canal is the [[wikt:busy|busiest]] [[wikt:artificial|artificial]] waterway for [[sea]]going [[ship]]s worldwide. In [[2014]], 32,600 [[ship]]s passed through the waterway.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/marine-civils/port,-harbour-and-marine-construction/more-canal-cash-as-delays-raise-hacklescanal |title=More canal cash as delays raise hackles |date=23 Oct 2015 |publisher=Maritime Journal |access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{commons}} * [http://www.kiel-canal.org/english.htm Kiel Canal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310035954/http://www.kiel-canal.org/english.htm |date=2009-03-10 }} {{Transport-stub}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Geography of Schleswig-Holstein]] [[Category:Canals in Germany]] [[Category:Kiel]]