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Old 03-28-2015, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by blueash View Post
Well, the whole west/east thing is interesting. If you start on the West coast of the US and go thru the canal toward the Caribbean, you in fact go east to west thru the canal. (actually you go south east to north west. See map below.) Perhaps that is what you meant by not geographically correct.

Thus the western end of the Panama canal leads to the Atlantic while the eastern end goes into the Pacific.
It was and you are correct. For those who have never been or researched it I use west to east because I think it's easier to understand.
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