The ‘Chunnel’ may be the UK’s most famous underwater tunnel, but the British have been trying to dig to Europe since 1880 – and plans still remain for a second Channel Tunnel. The Channel ...

There are actually three tunnels in the incredible underwater engineering marvel ... the ground until 1986 when a treaty was signed by the British and French governments to approve the tunnel.

When asked about the longest underwater tunnel in the world ... this railway tunnel is a whopping 3,000 metres longer than its British-French rival, despite opening six years earlier in 1988.

Napoleon was into it; the British were not and would not be until ... The most ambitious, unrealized vision for an underwater tunnel, though, is of a trans-Atlantic tunnel connecting New York ...

If asked which underwater tunnel in the world was longest ... this railway tunnel in Asia is an astounding 3,000 meters longer than its British-French counterpart, spanning 33.4 miles, of which ...

Johannes has a MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London and serves as the Managing Director at IFLScience. Underwater tunnels had people stumped until French-British engineer Marc ...

Surveys were conducted by both French and British experts to see if a tunnel was feasible throughout the 1800s, but were abandoned over fears the underwater tunnel could be used as an ‘invasion ...

Over the next 200 years various plans were made to start the project but none got off (or under) the ground until 1986 when a treaty was signed by the British and French governments to approve the ...