Contest #365 answer: Panama Canal, Panama
After a failed attempt to build a canal by the French in 1881-1894 (by Ferdinand de Lesseps who built the Suez canal) it was the USA who acquired the French assets in 1904 and finished the Panama Canal in 1914.
Currently there is an expansion program under construction, with a new set of locks which will allow larger ships into the canal. These locks are expected to open in 2016
Those who took the shortcut
- Garfield
- Paul Voestermans
- Walter_V_R
- hhgygy
- Eloy Cano
- Lighthouse
- Phil Ower
- steve willis
- krenek
- mehmet durmus
- R Hays
- Bill Close
- donaaronio
- adel
- Steve Jaycocks
– Hint –
- Dennis S.
- Gillian B
- Mik
- Paul Franson
- Chris Nason
- Marcel
- steven simmons
- Luís Filipe Miguel
- Cloudspotter
- rob de wolff
- Ashwini Agrawal
Contest #365 hint
Celebrated its 100th birthday
Contest #365
Contest #364 answer: Peenemünde, Germany
Peenemünde is the birthplace of the German rocket technology.
This is the place where the V1 and V2 weaponry was developed.
Once a small fishing village, the Germans built a few large testsites at the north of the peninsula and a huge power station and launch control bunker at the village’s harbor.
At the end of the war, the German engineers were ‘divided’ between the allied countries and Werner von Braun came in charge of the American space program.
Those who fired a rocket:
- Eloy Cano
- Walter_V_R
- hhgygy
- Paul Voestermans
- krenek
- Garfield
- Lighthouse
- mehmet durmus
– Hint –
- Phil Ower
- LawnBoy
- R Hays
- Bill Close
- rob de wolff
- Cloudspotter
Contest #364 hint
This is the birthplace of contest #34 and #43