Kiel Canal
- a man-made waterway, 98 km (61 miles) in length, in NW Germany, running westwards from Kiel to Brunsbüttel at the mouth of the Elbe. It connects the North Sea with the Baltic and was constructed in 1895 to provide the German navy with a shorter route between these two seas.基尔运河（一人造水道, 长98公里, 即61英里, 位于德国西北部, 从基尔向西流至易北河口的布伦斯比特尔; 基尔运河将北海和波罗的海连接起来, 1895年德国海军为在两海之间提供更短的通道而建造）。