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Subject: Names ... Author: khms [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 02:56:32 08/18/14 Mon > Nord-Ostsee Kanal at Kiel. Better known as the Kiel Canal Interesting. I've never heard it called that, it's always been the "Nord-Ostsee-Kanal" or, if talking history, the "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal", and I've been born in Flensburg ad lived the first five years in Kiel, and visited both often later as that's where my two sets of grandparents lived. Given the geography, "Kiel Canal" is a somewhat absurd name (now, if it were Kiel-Brunsbüttel Canal" or something like that ... still, people might have just translated it as "North Sea-Baltic Canal".) Anyway, currently I'm living and working close enough that, when walking to work or back, I'm crossing the Dortmund-Ems-Kanal. There's one row of buildings between work and the canal, a few more on the other side. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Names ... Author: Mike [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 05:27:16 08/18/14 Mon >I've never heard it called that, it's always been the >"Nord-Ostsee-Kanal" Just goes to show geographical differences ... I know it as the Kiel Canal, & I'm UK-based ... We likely know things here that you call differently too :)

[> [> Subject: Re: Names ... Author: Frank Ryan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:44:32 08/24/14 Sun >>I've never heard it called that, it's always been the >>"Nord-Ostsee-Kanal" >Just goes to show geographical differences ... I know >it as the Kiel Canal, & I'm UK-based ... We likely >know things here that you call differently too :) As youngster of a military family, we lived in Munich Germany, soon after the war. In about 1947 I believe it was, my older brother went to a summer camp by the North (Nord-See) and it was right near the Kiel Canal.