Gatun

[ gah-toon ]

/ gɑˈtun /

a town in the N Canal Zone of Panama.

a large dam near this town. 1½ miles (2 km) long.

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As a matter of fact, Gatun Dam proved the happiest surprise of the whole waterway.
The Panama Canal|Frederic Jennings Haskin
The Gatun dam is, however, founded upon the alluvial deposits of the Chagres River.
The Panama Canal|J. Saxon Mills
Behind was the bubbling, leaping flow of the spillway itself, and Gatun Dam.
Raiders Invisible|Desmond Winter Hall
When they had gone thus far it was then decided to build a little dam a few yards long identical in cross section with Gatun Dam.
The Panama Canal|Frederic Jennings Haskin

A crowd of men, in the uniform of the Gatun police, burst into the room.
The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal|John Henry Goldfrap