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- English_Canal abstract "The English Canal (Swedish: Engelska kanalen) was a planned and partially completed canal project that would connect the Swedish iron ore fields around Kiruna and Gällivare with Luleå and the Gulf of Bothnia.The ore fields were discovered as early as in the 1650s, but due to their remote location in the sparsely populated areas in northern Sweden, far from both the Atlantic coast and the coast of the Bothnian Gulf, it was very hard to transport the ore to any port from where it could be shipped to its ultimate destination. All attempts during the centuries to efficiently transport the ore failed. But with the introduction of the railway, new possibilities arose.Some earlier plans included horse-drawn trains and regular roads, but in the end it was decided to combine the new railway technology with the ancient boat transport. A railway line was planned for the stretch from the iron ore fields to the place where Stora Lule River and Lilla Lule River joined at Storbacken. The remaining length of the transport could be made possible by canalising the rest of Lule River from Storbacken down to Luleå. This would bypass the rapids of Edefors and Hedenforsarna which would allow the ore to be transported by boat all the way to the Gulf of Bothnia.The decision to construct the canal was taken 1863, and the Gellivare Company Limited based in London was contracted for the project. They were backed by English financiers and also received investments from the Swedish state. The excavation was started 14 October 1864 and by 1865 no less than 1,486 men were working on the project. But the English company soon experienced an economic crisis, which led to the stagnation of the construction in 1866 and 1867, until the company went bankrupt on New Year's Eve 1867 which marked the end of the project.In 1884-1888 a railway was built all the way between Gällivare and Luleå, the Iron Ore Line.Remains of the canal project can still be seen on several places in Norrbotten and Swedish Lapland, for example in Boden. These remains are sometimes called Engelska graven, which is a play on the Swedish word grav which can mean both "ditch"/"trench" and "grave/"tomb".".
- English_Canal wikiPageExternalLink engelskas.html.
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- English_Canal wikiPageLength "2857".
- English_Canal wikiPageOutDegree "31".
- English_Canal wikiPageRevisionID "634942827".
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_Ocean.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Boden_Municipality.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Canal.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canals_in_Sweden.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lapland_(Sweden).
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Category:Norrbotten.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Ditch.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink England.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink English_Channel.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Financier.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Gellivare_Company_Limited.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Grave.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Grave_(burial).
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_of_Bothnia.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Gällivare.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Iron_Ore_Line.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Iron_ore.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Kiruna.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink LKAB.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Lapland_(Sweden).
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Lilla_Lule_River.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink London.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Lule_River.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Luleå.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink New_Years_Eve.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Norrbotten.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Rail_transport.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Railway.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Stora_Lule_River.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Sweden.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Tomb.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLink Trench.
- English_Canal wikiPageWikiLinkText "English Canal".
- English_Canal hasPhotoCollection English_Canal.
- English_Canal wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord_missing.
- English_Canal wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Lang-sv.
- English_Canal subject Category:Canals_in_Sweden.
- English_Canal subject Category:Lapland_(Sweden).
- English_Canal subject Category:Norrbotten.
- English_Canal type Article.
- English_Canal type Article.
- English_Canal comment "The English Canal (Swedish: Engelska kanalen) was a planned and partially completed canal project that would connect the Swedish iron ore fields around Kiruna and Gällivare with Luleå and the Gulf of Bothnia.The ore fields were discovered as early as in the 1650s, but due to their remote location in the sparsely populated areas in northern Sweden, far from both the Atlantic coast and the coast of the Bothnian Gulf, it was very hard to transport the ore to any port from where it could be shipped to its ultimate destination. ".
- English_Canal label "English Canal".
- English_Canal sameAs Englischer_Kanal_(Schweden).
- English_Canal sameAs Engels_Kanaal.
- English_Canal sameAs m.0bt790.
- English_Canal sameAs Engelska_kanalen_(Sverige).
- English_Canal sameAs Q1128345.
- English_Canal sameAs Q1128345.
- English_Canal wasDerivedFrom English_Canal?oldid=634942827.
- English_Canal isPrimaryTopicOf English_Canal.