Gatun

How to use Gatun in a sentence

• At Gatun the eighty-five-foot lake level is obtained by a dam across the valley.

  The Wonder Book of Knowledge | Various

• At Gatun ships pass from the sea to the lake level, and vice versa, by three locks in flight.

  The Wonder Book of Knowledge | Various

• Where it was once believed that Gatun Dam would be the hardest task on the Isthmus it proved to be the easiest.

  The Panama Canal | Frederic Jennings Haskin

• The surface of the water in this lake is normally 85 feet higher than the surface of the water seaward from Gatun and Miraflores.

  The Panama Canal | Frederic Jennings Haskin

• As a matter of fact, Gatun Dam proved the happiest surprise of the whole waterway.

  The Panama Canal | Frederic Jennings Haskin