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Kiel Canal

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noun

  1. a canal connecting the North and Baltic seas. 61 miles (98 km) long.


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The S. S. Wimbledon was refused permission to enter the Kiel Canal because the German Government considered that such action would violate her neutrality in the Russo-Polish war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Potsdam, he said, the U.S. had proposed that four of Europe's great waterways�the Rhine, the Danube, the Kiel Canal and the Black Sea Straits�be internationalized.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Kiel Canal she had as guest Wilhelm II.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the lighter ships, to escape the assaults of the British destroyers during the night, headed north and got home by way of the Skagerrak and the Kiel Canal.

From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver