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Definition of Gota Canal
1. Noun. A canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gota Canal
Literary usage of Gota Canal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1891)
"The project of the Gota canal company, one of the most formidable undertakings
of its kind, was revived when he was about ten years old, his father being ..."
2. The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1888)
"A CHARMING summer journey is that of crossing the peninsula, from sea to sea, by
the Gota Canal and the lakes connecting the Baltic with the North Sea. ..."
3. Norway and Sweden: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1882)
"At the end of the lake the steamer regains the Gota Canal through another lock.
... train crosses the Gota Canal (see above), is a rapidly increasing place. ..."
4. The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1881)
"Terminus of the Canal A CHARMING summer journey is that of crossing the peninsula,
from sea to sea, by the Gota Canal and the lakes connecting the Baltic ..."
5. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"... canal was decided upon, it being planned to construct five new locks on the
Sheksna river. Sweden.—West Gota Canal.—The West Gota canal unites the ..."
6. Passages in a Wandering Life by Thomas Arnold (1900)
"CHAPTER X Journey to Sweden—The Gota Canal—The falls of Trollhattan— Lakes Wener
and Wetter—Stockholm—Swedish sculptors— Swedish ..."
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