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Strait between Greenland and Iceland
Not to be confused with Danish straits, Danish Strait, or Denmark Street.
Denmark Strait
Grænlandssund
Danmarksstrædet(Danish)
Ikerasak(Greenlandic)
Denmark Strait separates Iceland from Greenland in the upper left.
Denmark Strait
Location
Between Iceland and Greenland
Coordinates
67°N24°W / 67°N 24°W / 67; -24
Max. length
350 kilometres (220 mi)
Pack ice in the Denmark Strait
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.
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Cross for the sinking of HMS Hood on 24 May 1941 in the Battle of the DenmarkStrait. Less than a week later, on 27 May 1941, Schneider and the majority...
Royal Navy officer who commanded the British force in the Battle of the DenmarkStrait in May 1941 against the German battleship Bismarck. Holland was lost...
through the DenmarkStrait, Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea. To the east, the boundaries of the ocean proper are Europe: the Strait of Gibraltar...
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