Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project
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title:
Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project
text:
Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project is a proposed project to create a shipping route in the shallow straits between India and Sri Lanka. This would provide a continuously navigable sea route around the Indian Peninsula. The channel would be dredged in the Sethusamudram sea between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, passing through the limestone shoals of Rama Sethu. The project involves digging a 44.9-nautical-mile long deepwater channel linking the shallow Palk Strait with the Gulf of Mannar. Conceived
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Canal between India and Sri Lanka
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethusamudram_Shipping_Canal_Project
date created:
2005-05-19T21:45:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T15:21:20Z
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