In 1513 Vasco Nujez dc Balboa discovered the Pacific, sighting it from “a peak in Darien." To-day his statue (top right), standing in a town on the isthmus that he crossed when he found the Pacific for Europe, looks cur over the ocean. Balboa is the Pacific terminus of the Panama Canal. The picture top left shows the grandeur of the palm boulevards, and underneath is a specimen of the Traveller palm. The building bottom right is a school, and is typical of the improvements the Americans have introduced into the canal zone. In the centre is an American traffic controller .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 4
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101In 1513 Vasco Nujez dc Balboa discovered the Pacific, sighting it from “a peak in Darien." To-day his statue (top right), standing in a town on the isthmus that he crossed when he found the Pacific for Europe, looks cur over the ocean. Balboa is the Pacific terminus of the Panama Canal. The picture top left shows the grandeur of the palm boulevards, and underneath is a specimen of the Traveller palm. The building bottom right is a school, and is typical of the improvements the Americans have introduced into the canal zone. In the centre is an American traffic controller. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 4
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