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Modern Wonders |
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Location |
Tours |
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Buildings
All About Buildings
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Wikipedia-List of Tallest Buildings and Structures
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World's Tallest Free-standing Structure - CN Tower
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553 m (1,815 ft.)
Toronto, Canada |
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Site 2 |
Toronto, Canada |
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World's Tallest Building - Burj Dubai
means
"Symbol of Dubai"
585.7 m (1,922 ft reached on
24 Oct 07 - still under construction and supposedly will reach a
height of
817 m(2,680 ft)
Dubai, United Arab
Emirates |
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Site 2 |
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates |
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Canals
All About Canals
Records
Wikipedia- Canal,
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Most Famous Canal
- Panama Canal - 51 miles
Panama |
Webcam |
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Site 2 |
Panama
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World's Longest Canal - Suez Canal - 90 miles
(193.5 km)
Egypt |
No webcam |
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Site 2 |
Egypt
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Tunnels
All About Tunnels
Records
Wikipedia-List of Longest Tunnels |
Tunnel under the English Channel -
The Chunnel
Connects England and France |
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Site 2 |
English
Channel |
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World's
Longest Road Tunnel - Laerdal Tunnel -
15.2 miles
Connects the capital,
Oslo, on Norway's eastern coast with the country's second-largest
city, Bergen. |
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Site 2 |
Norway |
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World's
Longest Subsea Tunnel - Seikan
Railway Tunnel -
33 miles.
Connects the Japanese
islands of Honsun and Hokkaido. |
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Site 2 |
Japan |
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Bridges
All About Bridges
Records
Wikipedia-Longest Bridges |
World's
Longest Bridge - Lake
Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge
23.9 miles from Metairie on the
South Shore of Lake Pontchartrain
to St. Tammany Parish on the North Shore. |
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Site 2 |
Lake Pontchartrain,
Louisiana, USA |
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World's
Longest Suspension Bridge -
Akashi Kaikyo -
6,570 m [12,830 ft.] Longest span 1,991 m ( 6,532 feet)
Spans the Akashi Strait between Maiko, Japan
and the Japanese city of Matsuho on Awaji Island. |
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Site 2 |
Maiko, Japan |
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Dams/Barriers
All About Dams
Records
Wikipedia-List of Largest Dams,
Tallest Dams,
Netherlands Flood Barrier |
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World's Largest Dam - Three Gorges Dam in
China.
(Based on total amount of material used to build dam.) |
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Site 2 |
China |
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World's Tallest Dam - Rogun Dam on the Vakhsh River in
Tajikistan. It is 335 m tall (1099 ft) tall. Not completed yet. |
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Site 2 |
Near Rogun, Tajikistan |
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World's Largest Hydro Power Output - The Itaipú Dam on
the border between Brazil and Paraguay can produce up to 12,600
megawatts (MW). |
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Site 2 |
Brazil and Paraguay |
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World's largest flood barrier system. -
The North Sea Protection Works - Netherlands |
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Site 2 |
Netherlands |
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