Buckingham Canal

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The Buckingham Canal is a 420 km long salt water navigation canal, running parallel to the Coromandel Coast of South India from the vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh to Villupuram District in Tamil Nadu. The canal connects most of the natural backwaters along the coast to the port of Chennai (Madras). It was constructed by the British Raj, and was an important waterway during the late nineteenth and the twentieth century.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Canal
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Coordinates:   13°28'29"N   80°17'27"E
This article was last modified 18 years ago