Lewis & Clark Keel Boat - Nebraska City NE
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kJfishman
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A full sized replica keel boat cam be found at the Lewis and Clark Missouri River Visitors Center ran by the National Parks Service in Nebraska City Nebraska. There is also a 32 foot cutaway pirogue on display along with many other interesting activities and displays in the center.
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Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2016
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A full sized replica keel boat cam be found at the Lewis and Clark Missouri River Visitors Center ran by the National Parks Service in Nebraska City Nebraska. There is also a 32 foot cutaway pirogue on display along with many other interesting activities and displays in the center. The replica boat was built as a movie prop for the IMAX movie "The Great Journey West". The original boat was sailed back to St. Louis loaded with scientific specimens and no one knows what happened to it after that.
"Climb aboard a full sized replica of the keelboat, which is 55’ long and 8’ wide, used by the explorers over 200 years ago. Standing on the boat helps transport the visitor’s imagination to what the explorers experienced over 200 years ago on their remarkable journey up the great Missouri River. View the cabin where the captains slept and kept their journals.
A 32’ long cutaway model of the white pirogue, inside the center, is equipped with oars allowing visitors to feel the strength it took to row this wooden boat loaded with cargo upstream." (
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