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CANADA



                     OKANAGAN LAKE BRIDGE

                     Completed 1958. Spans 2,100 feet

                       (640 m).
                     Spans Okanagan Lake in British

                       Columbia, carrying Highway
                       97 to Kelowna. This was the first floating

                       bridge built in Canada. The old 3 lane floating bridge has been replaced by a new, 5

                       lane floating bridge. The new bridge — William R. Bennett Bridge — was completed
                       on May 25, 2008.










               CHINA



                         DONGJIN BRIDGE in Ganzhou, China

                         Pontoon bridges have been constructed over
                          the Zhang and Gong rivers since the Song

                          Dynasty (960-1279).
                         One of the bridges, the Dongjin Bridge, can

                          still be seen.

                         It is 400 metres long, made up of wooden planks placed on around 100 wooden
                          boats linked together with iron chains.

                         Guangji Bridge (Chaozhou), China
















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