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Also known as: Østersøen, Östersjön, Baltiyskoye More, Itämeri, Morze Bałtyckie, Ostsee
Written by
Alastair Dougal Couper
Professor of Maritime Studies, University of Wales College of Cardiff. Editor of The Times Atlas and Encyclopaedia of the Sea.
Alastair Dougal Couper,
Alice F.A. Mutton
Former Reader in Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London. Author of Western Europe in Colour: An Advanced Regional Geography.
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German:
Ostsee
Swedish:
Östersjön
Russian:
Baltiyskoye More
Finnish:
Itämeri
Polish:
Morze Bałtyckie
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Swedish navy recovers anchor of tanker suspected of Baltic Sea cable damage • Jan. 8, 2025, 2:12 AM ET (South China Morning Post)
Finland bars tanker suspected of cutting Baltic Sea cables from sailing • Jan. 8, 2025, 2:12 AM ET (South China Morning Post)
Russia Sabotaging 'NATO Lake' Cables to Freeze Europe, State TV Admits • Jan. 6, 2025, 9:04 PM ET (Newsweek)
One of Russia's 'shadow fleet' may have sabotaged power cables in the Baltic Sea. But what is it? • Jan. 5, 2025, 12:34 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))
Finland Court Upholds Detention for Oil Tanker That Broke Baltic Sea Cables • Jan. 4, 2025, 3:06 AM ET (Bloomberg.com)

Baltic Sea, arm of the North Atlantic Ocean, extending northward from the latitude of southern Denmark almost to the Arctic Circle and separating the Scandinavian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe. The largest expanse of brackish water in the world, the semienclosed and relatively shallow Baltic Sea is of great interest to scientists, while to historians it represents the economic core of the Hanseatic League, the great medieval trading group of northern European ports. The many names for the sea attest to its strategic position as a meeting place of many countries. The Baltic Sea covers about 149,000 square ...(100 of 2824 words)

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