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The 30 pages that link to Canal lock, each with the reason it gives.

• CanalBroader topic: Locks let navigation canals overcome changes in elevation without steep, unnavigable channels.

• Grand Canal of ChinaNarrower topic: Locks help explain how canal boats negotiated changes in water level along the route.

• Erie CanalRelated: Locks let canal boats cross the elevation changes between the Hudson River and Lake Erie.

• Inland waterway transportRelated: Locks let vessels cross elevation changes along rivers and canals.

• White Sea–Baltic CanalNarrower topic: Locks lift vessels across the canal’s watershed and regulate its changing water levels.

• Yangtze River shippingRelated: Locks at the Three Gorges Dam allow ships to bypass its height difference.

• Canal du MidiNarrower topic: Locks are the basic devices behind the canal’s changes in elevation.

• Rhine–Main–Danube CanalRelated: Locks lift and lower vessels along the canal’s changing elevation.

• Water transportBroader topic: Locks let boats pass through canals and rivers with changes in water level.

• Canal transportRelated: Locks let boats overcome changes in elevation along a canal.

• Nicaragua CanalRelated: Locks would be needed to move ships between the lake and lower coastal approaches.

• Bridgewater CanalRelated: Locks manage changes in water level along the canal’s route.

• Caledonian CanalNarrower topic: Locks let canal vessels move between lochs and engineered reaches at differing elevations.

• Dortmund–Ems CanalBroader topic: Locks let vessels pass between canal reaches at different heights along the route.

• Elbe–Lübeck CanalNarrower topic: The canal’s locks are instances of this basic waterway technology.

• New York State Canal SystemRelated: Locks make navigation possible across the system’s changes in elevation.

• Trollhätte CanalNarrower topic: The canal’s locks apply this general technology to overcome elevation changes.

• Albert CanalNarrower topic: Locks enable navigation where the canal crosses changes in elevation.

• Chesapeake and Ohio CanalRelated: A sequence of locks lifted canal boats more than 600 feet from Georgetown to Cumberland.

• Ghent–Terneuzen CanalNarrower topic: Lock capacity and operation shape the canal’s traffic and maintenance needs.

• Moscow CanalNarrower topic: A sequence of locks carries vessels across the canal’s changes in elevation.

• Stecknitz CanalNarrower topic: Locks let the canal overcome changes in elevation between the river basins.

• Buckingham CanalRelated: Locks help explain how canal sections at differing water levels can be navigated.

• Canals of AmsterdamRelated: Locks help regulate water levels and movement between connected waterways.

• Chambly CanalNarrower topic: The canal’s lock chambers lift boats past the Richelieu’s rapids and changes in elevation.

• Chesapeake and Delaware CanalNarrower topic: Locks are a standard way canals overcome elevation changes along a route.

• Danube–Black Sea CanalNarrower topic: Locks let ships move through the canal's changes in elevation.

• LingquRelated: Locks helped boats pass through the canal’s changing elevations.

• North Jiangsu Main Irrigation CanalBroader topic: Locks and control gates help manage water levels and movement along engineered waterways.

• Saint Lawrence SeawayBroader topic: Locks lift and lower ships across the seaway’s elevation changes.