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Down Memory Lane: Dam-builder extraordinaire helped defend Suez Canal by Bill McAllister By Contributor Published: 07:30, 24 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day s newspaper Pictured from the International Space Station, the Aswan Dam in Egypt separates Lake Nasser from the Nile River. Picture: NASA/Wikimedia Commons This year marks the centenary of Invernessâs civil engineering icon Sir Murdoch MacDonald ending his 23-year connection with the Egyptian government as an expert on major dams and irrigation projects. He would go on to be MP for Inverness â and to persuade the secretary of state for Scotland to issue an order to protect the Loch Ness Monster! ....