Kiel Canal

noun

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

Example Sentences

Kaiser Wilhelm II, the new leader of the recently unified Germany, proudly outfitted his recent acquisition with fortifications and guns to protect another new creation: the Kiel Canal, completed in 1895 to link the North Sea to the Baltic.

From National Geographic

Arriving in France, they skirted the Belgian and Dutch coast before passing through Germany's Kiel Canal into the Baltic, then made their way up the Danish and Swedish coasts.

From BBC

The photograph shows an RAF crew with a Mosquito aircraft and a bomb to be used on a raid against the Kiel canal.

From BBC

Rendsburg: "Successful together" is Chancellor Merkel's campaign slogan But as she climbed on stage for an early evening rally in the town of Rendsburg, on the Kiel Canal north of Hamburg, her supporters were happy enough.

From BBC

The lesson of the Dogger Bank to Grand Admiral von Tirpitz and his colleagues amounted to this: that it was not only a risky, but was likely to prove an exceedingly unprofitable undertaking, to operate with sea-going ships--whether battleships, cruisers or destroyers--far from the security of the Kiel Canal.

From Project Gutenberg