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The Denmark Strait overflow (Danish: Grønlandspumpen; Norwegian: Grønlandspumpa, meaning "the Greenland pump") is an undersea overflow located in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. The overflow transports around 3.2 million m 3 (110 million cu ft) of water per second, greatly eclipsing the discharge of the Amazon River into the ...
The strait connects the Greenland Sea, an extension of the Arctic Ocean, to the Irminger Sea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is 480 kilometres (300 mi) long. The narrowest part of the strait is 290 kilometres (180 mi) wide and lies between Straumnes, on Iceland's Hornstrandir peninsula, and Cape Tupinier, on Greenland's Blosseville Coast.
It is connected to the Langeled pipeline, currently the world's longest underwater pipeline, and thus to a major European gas pipeline network. [64] [65] Several other gas fields are being developed. As of 2019, there is an estimated 6.5 hm 3 of crude oil in the Norwegian Sea, with an expectation to increase oil production in the region up ...
Waterfall Bay (Tasmania, Australia) [11] King George River, (Western Australia) New Zealand: the following waterfalls empty into fjords of the Tasman Sea: into Doubtful Sound - Chamberlain Falls, Helena Falls, Lady Alice Falls. into Milford Sound - Bowen Falls, Stirling Falls. Samoa: Mu Pagoa Waterfall in the Palauli District on Savaii:
Straits of Denmark, naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterways that connect two larger bodies of water. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Straits of Denmark . Subcategories
The 1960 British war film Sink the Bismarck! discusses the strategic importance of the GIUK gap during World War II naval operations in the Atlantic theatre, and depicts the Battle of the Denmark Strait between British and German forces. It is based on the novel The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester.
The Denmark Strait cataract is an undersea overflow which could be considered a "waterfall" under a very broad usage of that term; if so included, it is the largest known waterfall. [ 11 ] Artificial waterfalls are water features or fountains that imitate a natural waterfall. [ 51 ]
Sele Strait (a.k.a. Galowa Strait, Revenges Strait) – between Salawati and New Guinea; Serpent's Mouth (Boca de la Serpiente) – between Trinidad and Venezuela; Shelikof Strait – between the Alaska mainland to the west and Kodiak and Afognak islands to the east, in the USA; Sibutu Passage – between Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago