Skagerrak
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Skagerrak, Denmark‐Norway A strait between Norway and Denmark named after the city‐port of Skagen on the northern tip of the Danish island of Jutland with the Swedish
rak ‘open channel’ or ‘straight way’ of Dutch/Low German origin. Thus the meaning is an ‘Open Channel past Skagen’.
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Skagerrak
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Kinostart 29.04.04 Skagerrak Skagerrak Scope. Dnemark/Grobritannien/Schweden/Norwegen/Deutschland...Unbekmmertheiten zu erkennen gibt. - Ab 16 mglich. 36 469 Skagerrak Vier Monate sind Marie und Sophie auf den Weltmeeren unterwegs...
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ABB receives contract to upgrade Skagerrak link.(ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd., Energinet.dk, Statnett)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Nordic Business Report; 2/21/2006; 695 words
; ...REPORT-21 February 2006-ABB receives contract to upgrade Skagerrak link(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www...received a contract to upgrade the control systems for the Skagerrak HVDC transmission link between Denmark and Norway. The contract...
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Ranging the Skagerrak; a delightful cruising world of islands and waterways lies along the Swedish and Norwegian shores of this arm of the North Sea.
Magazine article from: Yachting; 3/1/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...close together in a region of lovely scenery and attractive towns and villages. This is from the Oslofjord out through the Skagerrak, the arm of the North Sea that separates southeastern Norway from southwestern Sweden, with Denmark at the bottom of it...
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NORTH SEA AND SKAGERRAK SANDEEL FISHERY CLOSED UNTIL END OF YEAR.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: European Report; 7/16/2005; 700+ words
; The European Commission on July 15 adopted a Regulation to close fishing for sandeel in the North Sea and Skagerrak, the strait between Norway, Sweden and Denmark, until the end of 2005. This decision was taken after experts from the Scientific...
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NORTH SEA AND SKAGERRAK SANDEEL FISHERY CLOSED UNTIL END OF YEAR.(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Europe Agri; 7/22/2005; 700+ words
; The European Commission on July 15 adopted a Regulation to close fishing for sandeel in the North Sea and Skagerrak, the strait between Norway, Sweden and Denmark, until the end of 2005. This decision was taken after experts from the Scientific...
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EIB LOAN FOR SKAGERRAK POWER CABLE
Newspaper article from: Europe Energy; 1/7/1994; 621 words
; The European Investment Bank, the European Union's long-term financing institution, is lending USUSD 100 million (85 million Ecus) to the the Norwegian power grid company, Statnett SF, for the construction of a high -voltage power cable between Norway and Denmark to increase the capacity of
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Sweden: the west side; from the Kattegat to the Skagerrak, one of the world's best cruising grounds - in the summer.
Magazine article from: Yachting; 5/1/1985; ; 700+ words
; Nowhere in Sweden is it possible to be more than a hundred miles or so from the sea, and in the southern part of the country, where most of the population lives, the distance is usually less than that. In cold and mountainous northern Sweden, which extends well beyond the Arctic Circle, stands one
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A new test for density-dependent survival: the case of coastal cod populations.
Magazine article from: Ecology; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...morhua) populations along the Norwegian Skagerrak coast. THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE NORWEGIAN SKAGERRAK GOD Fromentin et al. (1997) demonstrated...fluctuations in time series of the Norwegian Skagerrak cod population. The period was [approximately...
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Art That's Too Approachable Creates a Touchy Problem.(Media&Society)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 3/26/2001; 700+ words
; ...23rd Street, the modern sculpture named Skagerrak was awkward and unapproachable. Moved...it was jarring and remote. Now that Skagerrak is about to be moved one more time...landing on a simple and soft solution. Skagerrak, named for the jagged waterway that...
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ELECTRICITY: NORTHERN EUROPE'S INTERCONNECTORS OPENED UP TO COMPETITION.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Newspaper article from: European Report; 1/13/2001; 700+ words
; ...the lack of open capacity on both the Skagerrak cable between Denmark and Norway and...term reservation agreements on the Skagerrak cable and on the Danish/German border...Agreement for the 60% of capacity on the Skagerrak cable is being amended in order to free...
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Skagerrak
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Skagerrak , strait, c.150 mi (240 km) long and 85 mi (140 km) wide, between Norway and Denmark...shallow on the Danish shore and deepens toward the Norwegian coast. For the battle of the Skagerrak, see Jutland, battle of .
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Sweden
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...shallow straits of the Kattegat and the Skagerrak. The Gulf of Bothnia, between Sweden...Denmark, the Kattegat flows into the Skagerrak Strait, a triangular body of water that...Sweden, and Denmark. The Kattegat and Skagerrak are considered part of the North Sea...
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blockade runners
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...Norwegian, and Swedish seamen, slipped unseen through the Skagerrak on the night of 23/24 January 1941. They were bombed the...out to sea by Swedish warships, tried to steam through the Skagerrak in daylight. Two were sunk by German aircraft and only two...
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Denmark
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...number of inlets that separate the main Jutland Peninsula area of Denmark from its surrounding islands and countries. The Skagerrak Strait separates Denmark from Norway in the northwest. The Kattegat Strait lies between Denmark and Sweden to the east...
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Norwegians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...the Atlantic Ocean for most of the country's length, on the southwest by the North Sea, and directly to the south by the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea. To the east, Norway shares a long border with Sweden, and for a short distance in the north...
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