Canals: Building the Future, Impacting World Geography

by jjk|Published 1 November 2019

Canals, past and present, impacted regional and world physical geography on a local but also global scale. Explore how canals influenced geography, and how geography influenced canals, narrated by Geographer Joseph Kerski. Low bridge, everybody down!

The first ship to pass through the newly completed Panama Canal, the SS Ancon, passing through the Panama Canal on 15 August 1914. The construction of canals around the world had an impact on the surrounding physical geography, but more importantly, on the global economy and the way in which people thought about altering the environment. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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