Overland Route

Overland Route is the route to Australia and the East across the European continent instead of round the Cape of Good Hope. It was inaugurated by Lieutenant Waghorn (1800–1850) in 1845, who had promoted and claimed the idea of a new route from Great Britain to India overland through Egypt prior to the development of the Suez Canal. The route was modified on the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, and is now viâ France, the Mont Cenis tunnel, Brindisi, the Levant, Suez Canal, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean.

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