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Tewfik Pasha —
Photo Credit: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2127090

Tewfik Pasha

Nautical chart of the Suez Canal — Published shortly after the inauguration, with survey data from HMS Newport under George Nares
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Nautical chart of the Suez Canal Published shortly after the inauguration, with survey data from HMS Newport under George Nares

Taken by the MISR instrument on the Terra satellite on January 30, 2001. Shows
the Great Bitter Lake at the center (before the 2015 expansion)

NASA image of the Suez Canal — Taken by the MISR instrument on the Terra satellite on January 30, 2001. Shows the Great Bitter Lake at the center (before the 2015 expansion)
Photo Credit: By NASA - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=392578

NASA image of the Suez Canal Taken by the MISR instrument on the Terra satellite on January 30, 2001. Shows the Great Bitter Lake at the center (before the 2015 expansion)

Participating certificate of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez — issued 1 January 1889
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Participating certificate of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez issued 1 January 1889

Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869 —
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Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869

Isma'il Pasha —
Photo Credit: Unknown author - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5406718

Isma'il Pasha

grave of Ferdinand de Lesseps, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris —
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grave of Ferdinand de Lesseps, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

Lesseps' statue at the entrance of the Suez Canal — 1955; the outstretched hand indicated that the way was now open to the East
Photo Credit: By Zdravko Pečar - Museum of African Art (Belgrade), CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99670829

Lesseps' statue at the entrance of the Suez Canal 1955; the outstretched hand indicated that the way was now open to the East

Coat of arms of the Egyptian Kingdom —
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