Gaillard Cut (Panama)

found: Work cat.: NUCMC data from Judah L. Magnes Museum for Miriam Wornum photograph collection, 1898-1930(collection contains photographs of construction of the Gatun Locks and the Culebra Cut (later renamed the Gaillard Cut) in the Panama Canal)

found: GEONAMES, Dec. 11, 2006(Gaillard Cut; 09⁰03ʹ00ʺN; 079⁰40ʹ00ʺW; variant: Culebra Cut)

found: Wikipedia WWW, Dec. 11, 2006(Gaillard Cut, or Culebra Cut, is a man-made valley cutting through the continental divide in Panama; cut forms part of the Panama Canal, linking Lake Gatun, and thereby the Atlantic Ocean, to the Gulf of Panama and the Pacific Ocean; construction began on 22 Jan. 1882; Canal opened in 1914; cut renamed to Gaillard Cut on 27 Apr. 1915 in honor of David du Bose Gaillard of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)