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It won't be as direct but it would avoid the environmental issues of cutting through the Darien National Park.

First of all the Act of Union in 1707 came about because Scotland had bankrupted itself in the Darien scheme.

My token nod of agreement with darien was more or less just a vote to call bullshit on the article.

They knew better than to try to penetrate the Darien Jungle -- that's why they went in a surplus Army Duck.

In the old days the Darien encompassed a lot larger area than it does today.

The Darien Scheme was actually in the San Blas islands now part of the Kuna Yala territory belonging to the Kuna tribe.

It's the Darien Gap, and you basically take a boat around the gap, from Panama into Colombia I believe.

The crossing of the Darien Gap is about 90 kilometers (from the article).

A swedish tourist tried to cross the Darien Gap in May.

This territory lies further west that the Darien province of today.

You need a lot of confidence to start the Darien Scheme ( equivalent to Vasco da Gama ) Unlike da Gama, the Darien scheme ended in disaster for the whole of Scotland and the poor souls in Caledonia.

Did they walk through the Darien gap and the Aztec Empire, or did they have boats that could make it all the way there, but not back to Mali?

Last time it got as far as the planning phase and the Darien Gap came up, and there was a real moment of "WTF?

Ask Darien Long, the "badass mall cop." He works in an area in downtown Atlanta infested with drug dealers and he constantly encounters people who want to threaten him.

"And then everyone gets out to help carry the ship over the Darien Gap..." or possibly,"Shackleton, the adventure."

The leaders of Scotland at the time, partially due to a failed colonial expedition to Darien, agreed to the Union.

The people of Gary, Indiana are far better off than the people of Darien, Connecticut!

This is as close as I can find to the international equivalent of a comparison of Gary, Indiana, and Darien, Connecticut.