Satellite
Images of
Egypt
City
of
Sawhaj,
in the
Nile
Valley,
Egypt
(NASA).
Suez
Canal,
Egypt
1992
(image
below).
The
entire
length
of
Egypt’s
Suez
Canal
(dark
north-south
line)
is
visible
in
this
low-oblique,
northeast-looking
photograph.
Extending
from
the
port
city
of
Suez
in the
south
to
Port
Said
in the
north,
a
distance
of
approximately
160
km,
the
canal
connects
the
Red
Sea
with
the
eastern
Mediterranean
Sea.
The
minimum
width
of the
canal
is 55
m, and
the
minimum
depth
of the
channel
is 12
m.
Ships
entering
the
canal
from
the
south
pass
through
the
Gulf
of
Suez,
Little
Bitter
Lake,
Great
Bitter
Lake,
and
into
the
main
body
of the
canal.
The
sandy
desert
of the
northwest
Sinai
Peninsula
occupies
the
territory
east
of the
canal,
and
the
large
dark
area
west
of the
canal
is the
eastern
extent
of the
Nile
River
Delta.
The
dendrite
drainage
feature
along
the
northwest
side
of the
Gulf
of
Suez
is
Khafuri
Wadi.
The
narrow
swath
of
green
extending
east-west
on the
west
side
of the
canal
is a
strip
of
irrigated
farmland
that
borders
the
Ismailia
Canal,
which
connects
Cairo
with
the
Suez
Canal
at the
city
of
Ismailia.
Many
center-pivot
irrigation
field
patterns
are
visible
in a
roughly
rectangular
area
south
of the
Ismailia
Canal
(NASA).
