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The Welland Canal lifts ships nearly 100 metres
Eight locks raise vessels over the Niagara Escarpment between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie The canal runs about 43 kilometres through Ontario and bypasses Niagara Falls. Without it, goods moving between the lakes would have to be unloaded and carried around the falls. The present channel is the fourth version, completed in 1932 and since widened. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation
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The Welland Canal lifts ships nearly 100 metres: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Eight locks raise vessels over the Niagara Escarpment between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. The figure is taken from St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.