SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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St. Lawrence Seaway
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The Great Lakes
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Gulf of St. Lawrence
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lawrence Seaway (French: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota, at the western end of Lake Superior.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lawrence Seaway’s 15 locks (13 Canadian and 2 American) serve as the linchpin within the broader waterway, connecting the lower St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes, enabling ships to transit between Montreal and Lake Erie, a difference in elevation of 168 metres.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Seaway system is connected by 5 short canals. They include 15 locks, filled and emptied by gravity.
Detailed explanation-4: -THE WELLAND CANAL SECTION. OF THE ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY. The chain of lakes and rivers used by early. North American explorers and Canadian.