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Suez Canal: Russia proposes Arctic shipping route as alternative to blocked waterway

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Russia has proposed its Arctic shipping route as an alternative to the Suez Canal, which has been blocked since Tuesday.  State-run Russian energy company Rosatum boasted the alternative route has more room to draw rude pictures, in reference to the Ever Given’s penis-shaped water course in the Red Sea.      Eagle-eyed observers noticed the phallic shape … Read more

Lost Viking waterway running across mainland Orkney revealed 

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A lost Viking waterway that ran across Orkney and connected the North Atlantic and Scapa Flow 1,000 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists. The canal-like network would have provided a shallow water routeway through which the Norse/Vikings were able to haul both their boats and heavy goods, such as grain. Similar navigable waterways are … Read more