Question

The Kiel canal links ______.

• A. Mediterranean and Black Sea
• B. Pacific and Atlantic oceans
• C. Mediterranean and Red Sea
• D. North Sea and Baltic Sea

Answer 1

The correct option is D North Sea and Baltic Sea

North Sea and Baltic Sea

The Kiel Canal is a 95-kilometre (59 mi) long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The canal was finished in 1895, but later widened, and links the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of 250 nautical miles (460 km) is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around the Jutland Peninsula. This not only saves time but also avoids storm-prone seas and having to pass through the Sound or Belts.

Besides its two sea entrances, the Kiel Canal is linked, at Oldenbüttel, to the navigable River Eider by the short Gieselau Canal.