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Denmark Strait
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Denmark Strait, passage, c.300 mi (480 km) long and 180 mi (290 km) wide at the narrowest point, between Greenland and Iceland. The cold E Greenland current passes through the strait and carries icebergs S into the N Atlantic Ocean.
Denmark Strait
a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic


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Fry recalls taking rolls on McCloyup to 62-deg when the task group ignored OTSR's recommended routing to the east of Iceland and ran into a storm in the Denmark Straits between Iceland and Greenland.
COLD WaR WaRRIORS GOT CHILLY RECEPTION IN ARCTIC by Edward Lundquist / Sea Classics
HMS Llandudno served around Iceland, the Denmark Straits and took part in the D-Day landings.
RESORT'S WARSHIP COMES HOME by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Below the Labrador Sea Water core, there is a weak but detectable CFC core in waters characteristic of Denmark Straits Overflow water (marked here by the deepest dashed line).
Transient tracers track ocean climate signals by Jenkins, William J.; Smethie, William M., Jr. / Oceanus
 
 
 
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