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Kattegat (kăt`ĭgăt'), strait, c.140 mi (230 km) long and from 40 to 100 mi (60–160 km) wide, between Sweden and Denmark. It is connected with the North Sea through the Skagerrak, which begins at the northern tip of Jutland, and with the Baltic Sea by way of the Øresund, Store Bælt, and Lille Bælt. Göteborg (Sweden) and Århus (Denmark) are the chief ports. KattegatArm of the North Sea, between Sweden and Jutland, Denmark. Its maximum width is 88 mi (142 km). It is connected with both the North and Baltic seas. Chief ports on its shores are Göteborg and Halmstad in Sweden and Århus in Denmark. It is an important commercial navigation passage and a popular summer vacation area. Kattegat a strait between Denmark and Sweden: linked by the Sound, the Great Belt, and the Little Belt with the Baltic Sea and by the Skagerrak with the North Sea How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Mercury concentration of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena and other cetaceans from the North Sea and Kattegat. The peninsula is cut across by the sinuous path of the Limfjord, a long sea-water thoroughfare that links the North Sea and the Kattegat with a twisting silver ribbon under vast skies like those seen in Dutch landscape paintings and ones of the East Anglian school. An increased number of deaths in the Danish seal population was noticed in May 2002, starting at the Kattegat Isle of Anholt. |
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