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The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Chunnel, [3] [4] is a 50.46-kilometre (31.35-mile) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
#1 Tunnel, Yellow River Diversion to Shanxi North Line Shanxi, China 43.7 km (27.2 mi) 2011 Water supply #7 Tunnel, Yellow River Diversion to Shanxi South Line Shanxi, China 43.5 km (27.0 mi) 2002 Water supply High Island Water Tunnels: Sai Kung Peninsula, New Territories, Hong Kong 40 km (24.9 mi) 1976 Water supply
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...
Orange–Fish River Tunnel: South Africa 82,800 m (51.450 mi) 1972 Longest continuous enclosed aqueduct in the Southern Hemisphere (22.5 m 2 cross section). Built to divert water from the Orange River to the Great Fish River. Water supply Bolmen Water Tunnel: Kronoberg/Scania, Sweden 82,000 m (50.952 mi) 1987 8 m 2 cross section Metro
Before 1800, a great deal of coal was left in places as extraction was still primitive. As a result, in the deep Tyneside pits (300 to 1,000 ft deep) only about 40 percent of the coal could be extracted. The use of wooden pit props to support the roof was an innovation first introduced about 1800.
Rank Country Waterways Date of information — World 2,293,412: 2017 1 Russia 317,505: 2017 2 Brazil 153,348: 2017 3 China 138,357: 2017 [3] European Union 53,384: 2017 4 United States
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The border between the countries of France and the United Kingdom in Europe is a maritime border that stretches along the Channel, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.The Channel Tunnel links the two countries underground and is defined as a 'land frontier', and not widely recognised as a land border.