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  2. Danes Island - Wikipedia

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    Danes Island. Coordinates: 79°40′N 10°54′E. Danes Island (Danskøya) lies to the northwest of Spitsbergen. Danes Island[1][2][3] (Norwegian: Danskøya) is an island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean with an area of 40.6 km 2 (15.7 sq mi). [4] It lies just off the northwest coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the ...

  3. Noma (restaurant) - Wikipedia

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    noma.dk. Noma (/ ˈnoʊ.mə /) is a three-Michelin-star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi, and co-founded by Claus Meyer, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The name is a syllabic abbreviation of the two Danish words " nordisk " (Nordic) and " mad " (food). [ 2 ]

  4. Danish cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Meat balls of pork in curry sauce, served with rice. Gammeldags kylling (old-fashioned chicken). Pot-roast whole chicken stuffed with parsley and served with boiled potatoes, thick brown sauce, cucumber pickle and rhubarb compote. Frikadeller, pan-fried meat balls of pork, or a mix of veal and pork, with spices.

  5. Virgohamna - Wikipedia

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    Virgohamna. Coordinates: 79°43′24″N 10°54′42″E. Virgohamna (English: Virgo Bay) is a small bay on the northern coast of Danes Island, an island off the northwestern coast of Spitsbergen. Spitsbergen and Danes Island are islands of the Svalbard archipelago. The bay is named after SS Virgo, the vessel of Swedish engineer and explorer ...

  6. Changzhou Island - Wikipedia

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    Changzhou ("Dane Is.") lies in the east, Xiaoguwei ("French Is.") to its south, and Pazhou ("Whampoa Is.") to its northwest. Changzhou Island, formerly known in English as Dane or Dane's Island, is an island in the Pearl River Delta of China 's Guangdong Province. It is now administered as part of Guangzhou 's Huangpu District, although the ...

  7. Bornholm - Wikipedia

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    66.85/km 2 (173.14/sq mi) Bornholm (Danish pronunciation: [pɒːnˈhʌlˀm]) is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland. Strategically located, Bornholm has been fought over for centuries. It has usually been ruled by Denmark, but also by Sweden and by Lübeck.

  8. Flakfortet - Wikipedia

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    The island and fort are simply known as Flakfortet; the name of the island; Saltholmrev, meaning the reef near Saltholm, is seldom used. Flakfortet was the last of three artificial islands that the Danes created to defend the entrance to Copenhagen's harbor. (The other two are Trekroner Fort (the oldest) and Middelgrundsfortet.)

  9. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition - Wikipedia

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    Returning to Danes Island in the summer of 1897, the expedition found that the balloon hangar built the year before had weathered the winter storms well. The winds were more favorable, too. Andrée had strengthened his leadership position by replacing the older and critical Ekholm, an authority in his field, with the more enthusiastic Frænkel ...