of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak. The city is the most populous metropolis in Vestfold county. Tønsberg...
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Baltic Sea (section An arena of conflict)
Entrance to the Baltic Sea, bounded by the parallel of the Skaw in the Skagerrak at 57°44.43'N." Historically, the Kingdom of Denmark collected Sound Dues...
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Saevo is thought to be the mountainous Norwegian coast at the entrance to Skagerrak and the Cimbrian peninsula is thought to be Skagen, the north tip of Jutland...
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winter darkness and high speed to penetrate the German blockade of the Skagerrak straits between Norway and the northern tip of Denmark. Before the outbreak...
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Kristiansand (category Skagerrak)
harbor on the island of Flekkerøy, which was the most important on the Skagerrak beginning in the 16th century and was first fortified under King Christian...
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Gothenburg (category Skagerrak)
made Gothenburg strategically critical as the only Swedish gateway to Skagerrak, the North Sea and Atlantic, situated on the west coast in a very narrow...
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Oslo (category Skagerrak)
Media and Hjemmet Mortensen AB. Oslo is home to the Holmenkollen National Arena and Holmenkollbakken, the country's main biathlon and Nordic skiing venues...
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Norwegian municipality during the summer months. Warm breezes from the Skagerrak cause a mild climate, and Sandefjord experiences the highest annual number...
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by the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron and destroyers) again bound for the Skagerrak, this time to support efforts to disrupt the transport of Swedish ore...
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on 30 October 1913, 75 miles (121 km) west of the Scaw, Denmark in the Skagerrak, while on voyage from Vilajoki, Finland to Bo'ness carrying pit props...
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After the war, she was loaded with chemical weapons and scuttled in the Skagerrak in 1947. The German 1898 Naval Law called for the replacement of the fleet's...
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Description HNoMS Thor Royal Norwegian Navy The monitor ran aground in the Skagerrak off Verdens Ende, Norway, and sank with the loss of two lives....
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hitting a turret. Only three days earlier Suffolk sank the German tanker Skagerrak northwest of Bodø. On 19 April three Ju 87s attacked British warships...
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of the German fleet for its sortie (which had been redirected to the Skagerrak) and the failure of five U-boats to receive the coded message warning...
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society. Uppsala universitet. ISBN 91-554-5263-9. Sundqvist, Olof (2015). An Arena for Higher Powers Ceremonial Buildings and Religious Strategies for Rulership...
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Description Anna Soviet Union The cargo ship was destroyed by fire in the Skagerrak off Kristiansand, Norway. Gladys United Kingdom The Thames barge collided...
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(+1922)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 4 September 2012. "Oil Tanker Ashore Near Point Arena". Oakland Tribune. 1 May 1922. p. 11. "Casualty reports". The Times. No...
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