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The Denmark Strait [a] is the strait that separates Greenland from Iceland. The Norwegian island of Jan Mayen lies northeast of the strait. Geography.
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 ...
Where an island is situated between a "belt" and a "sound", typically the broader strait is called "belt" and the narrower one is the "sound": Als: separated from the continent by Alssund; separated from Fyn by the southern part of the Little Belt, an area referred to in German (but not Danish) as Alsenbelt; Fehmarn
The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a naval engagement in the Second World War, which took place on 24 May 1941 between ships of the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine.The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which were attempting to break out into the North Atlantic to attack Allied ...
Singapore Strait – Connects the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea. Separates Singapore and Indonesia . Skagerrak – separating Denmark from Norway and Sweden; Smith Sound – between Ellesmere Island (Canada) and Greenland; The Solent – England: between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire; The Sound or Øresund – between Denmark and ...
Denmark has closed one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes over an activated but malfunctioning missile launcher on a Danish navy ship, the country’s military said Thursday.
The Great Belt (Danish: Storebælt, pronounced [ˈstoːɐˌpelˀt]) is a strait between the major islands of Zealand (Sjælland) and Funen (Fyn) in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits . Effectively dividing Denmark in two, the Belt was served by the Great Belt ferries from the late 19th century until the islands were connected by the ...
The border between Danish and Icelandic EEZ runs along the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark, and between Iceland and Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark. Hans Island, an island in Nares Strait, was the subject of a territorial dispute between Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark and Canada. On 11 June 2022 the island was ...