Maritime History

Buckingham Canal

The Buckingham Canal is a 796 kilometres (494.6 mi)-long brackish-water navigation canal system running roughly parallel to the Coromandel Coast of South India, from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Marakkanam in Tamil Nadu. It links a chain of coastal backwaters and waterways and passes through Chennai. Developed in stages under British rule from 1806, the canal became an important coastal transport route during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Competition from rail and road transport later reduced its commercial importance, while sections in Chennai became silted and heavily polluted by sewage and industrial effluents. The North and South Buckingham canals are constituent sections of National Waterway 4. In February 2026, the Inland Waterways Authority of India had completed feasibility studies for Tamil Nadu's declared waterways and sanctioned ₹5.23 crore to update the detailed project report for NW-4, including the Buckingham Canal.

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See also

• ▸German ship Doggerbank
• ▸Christ Pantocrator (Sinai)
• ▸Avonmouth

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