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The Panama Canal Zone (Spanish: Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was a concession of the United States located in the Isthmus of Panama that existed from 1903 to 1979. It consisted of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending five miles (8 km) on each side of the centerline, but excluding Panama City and ...
The events of January 9 were considered to be a significant factor in the U.S. decision to negotiate the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties, which finally abolished the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty and allowed the gradual transfer of control of the Canal Zone to Panama and the handover of full control of the Panama Canal on December 31, 1999. [10]
Panama Canal Zone map O-class submarines at Coco Solo in 1923. Rodman Naval Station in 1989 with USS Briscoe (DD-977), USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG-23), Jesse L. Brown , Manitowoc, and the Colombian ARC USS Independiente (54) and ARC Antioquia (FM-53) A schematic of the Panama Canal, illustrating the sequence of locks and passages Location of Panama between the Pacific Ocean (bottom) and the ...
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Barro Colorado Research Station. Smithsonian scientists first came to Panama during the construction of the Panama Canal from 1904 to 1914. The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles Doolittle Walcott, reached an agreement with Federico Boyd to conduct a biological inventory of the new Canal Zone in 1910, and this survey was subsequently extended to include all of Panama.