Strait in Denmark linking the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat strait and the Atlantic Ocean
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Great Belt
Straits of Denmark and southwestern Baltic Sea. The Great Belt (labelled with its Danish name Storebælt) is slightly left of center
The Great Belt (Danish: Storebælt, pronounced[ˈstoːɐˌpelˀt]) is a strait between the major islands of Zealand (Sjælland) and Funen (Fyn) in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits.
Effectively dividing Denmark in two, the Belt was served by the Great Belt ferries from the late 19th century until the islands were connected by the Great Belt Fixed Link in 1997–98.
The GreatBelt (Danish: Storebælt, pronounced [ˈstoːɐˌpelˀt]) is a strait between the major islands of Zealand (Sjælland) and Funen (Fyn) in Denmark. It...
The GreatBelt Bridge (Danish: Storebæltsbroen) or GreatBelt fixed link (Danish: Storebæltsforbindelsen) is a multi-element fixed link crossing the Great...
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The GreatBelt ferries (Danish: Storebæltsfærgerne) were the train and car ferries operating across the Danish strait of GreatBelt, between the islands...
The March Across the Belts (Swedish: Tåget över Bält) was a military campaign waged by the Swedish Empire across the ice between the Danish islands. It...
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The GreatBelt Bridge rail accident occurred on 2 January 2019 on the GreatBelt Fixed Link in Denmark when a passenger train collided with a semi-trailer...
The Fehmarn Belt fixed link (Danish: Femern Bælt-forbindelsen, German: Fehmarnbelt-Querung) or Fehmarn Belt tunnel is an under-construction immersed tunnel...
makes it deeper than its sister strait, the GreatBelt. Numerous small Danish islands lie within the belt. In part because of its depth, 10% of the water...
territorial losses, Øresund and Fehmarn Belt are now shared with Sweden and Germany, while the GreatBelt and the Little Belt have remained Danish territorial...
The GreatBelt power link (Storebælt HVDC), also known as the GreatBelt electricity link, is a high-voltage direct-current interconnection across the...
in January 2024. On 1 December 2023, Icon of the Seas passed under the GreatBelt Bridge in Denmark. The ship docked at the Navantia Shipyard in Cádiz,...
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through the Danish Straits into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, GreatBelt and Little Belt. It includes the Gulf of Bothnia (divided into the Bothnian Bay...
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and the 4th most populous. It is connected to Sprogø and Funen by the GreatBelt Fixed Link and to Amager by several bridges in Copenhagen. Indirectly...
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completed with the GreatBelt Bridge in June 1998. Previously, only ferries and other boats had transported people over the belts. The Little Belt Bridge was...
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re-registered under the Bahamas flag. M/V Karen Danielsen crashed into the Danish GreatBelt Bridge on 3 March 2005 during a trip from Svendborg to Finland, and is...
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defines the limits of the "Kattegat, Sound and Belts" (that is, the Kattegat, Øresund, GreatBelt, and Little Belt) as follows: On the North: A line joining...
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