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The Danish straits are the straits connecting the Baltic Sea to the North Sea through the Kattegat and Skagerrak. Historically, the Danish straits were internal waterways of Denmark ; however, following territorial losses, Øresund and Fehmarn Belt are now shared with Sweden and Germany , while the Great Belt and the Little Belt have remained ...
- Great Belt
The Great Belt (Danish: Storebælt, pronounced...
- Danish Strait
Danish Strait is a strait running through the Sverdrup...
- Great Belt
The Denmark Strait (Danish: Danmarksstrædet) or Greenland Strait (Icelandic: Grænlandssund [ˈkrainˌlan (t)sˌsʏnt], ' Greenland Sound ') is an oceanic strait between Greenland to its northwest and Iceland to its southeast. The Norwegian island of Jan Mayen lies northeast of the strait.
- Between Iceland and Greenland
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- 300 miles (480 km)
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The Kattegat (Danish: [ˈkʰætəkæt]; Swedish: Kattegatt [ˈkâtːɛˌɡat]) is a 30,000 km 2 (12,000 sq mi) sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the west, the Danish Straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Skåne in Sweden in the east.
- lit. '"cat's gate"'
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- 30,000 km² (12,000 sq mi)
Øresund or Öresund ( UK: / ˌɜːrəˈsʊnd /, US: / ˈɜːrəsʌn, - sʊnd, ˈɔːrəsʊnd /; [1] [2] [3] Danish: Øresund [ˈøːɐˌsɔnˀ]; Swedish: Öresund [œːrɛˈsɵnːd] ), [4] commonly known in English as the Sound, [5] is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand ( Denmark) from Scania ( Sweden ).
- 118 km (73 mi)
- Strait
- 28 kilometres (17 mi)
The Copenhagen Convention, which came into force on 14 March 1857, is a maritime treaty governing transit passage through the Danish straits. Provisions. It has abolished the Sound Dues and all Danish straits have been made international waterways free to all commercial shipping.
