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  Encyclopedia: List of islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is a list of islands of Norway.
This is a list of islands of Poland.
This is a list of islands of Portugal.
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 baltic sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Baltic Sea is in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of east and central Europe, and the Danish islands.
Finland and the Baltic states were the last in Europe to be converted into Christianity in the Northern Crusades: the former in the 12th century by the Swedes and the latter in the 13th century by the Germans.
After 1945 the sea was a border between conflicted military blocks: in case of military conflict in Germany, in parallel with a Soviet offensive towards the Atlantic ocean, communist Poland's fleet was prepared to invade Danish isles.
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 Encyclopedia: Baltic Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south.
Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea.
Bay of Mecklenburg (German: Mecklenburgische Bucht; Polish: Zatoka Meklemburska) is a basin in the south-western Baltic Sea, between the shores of Denmark It is connected with the Bay of Kiel in the north-west and the Bay of Lubeck in the south-west.
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 List of islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of islands in the world grouped by oceans and by continents.
List of islands of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
List of islands of Indonesia, Islands of Indonesia
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands   (141 words)

  
 Baltic Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainlands of Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and the Danish islands.
The Baltic Sea is linked to the White Sea by the White Sea Canal and directly to the North Sea by the Kiel Canal.
The flow of the rivers into the Baltic is quite high, however, and as a result the salinity of water in the Baltic Sea is somewhere between freshwater and seawater, known as brackish water.
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 List of islands in the Baltic Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of islands in the Baltic Sea.
The Åland Islands (belonging to Finland) lie at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia marking the northern border of the Baltic Sea proper.
The largest Danish islands Zealand (7,000km² 2,200,000 people) and Funen (2,984km² 400,000 people) lie between the Baltic Sea and the Kattegat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands_in_the_Baltic_Sea   (109 words)

  
 Baltic Sea - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is linked to the White Sea by the White Sea Canal and to the North Sea by Kiel Canal.
Baltic Sea is used in English; in Latin (Mare Balticum) and the Romance languages French (Mer Baltique), Italian (Mare Baltico) and Romanian (Marea Baltică); in the Slavic languages Polish (Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk), Kashubian (Bôłt), and Russian (Baltiyskoye Morye (Балтийское море)); and in the Baltic languages Latvian (Baltijas jūra) and Lithuanian (Baltijos jūra).
The Baltic Sea is very shallow, and because the straits of Denmark are quite narrow, the waters of the Baltic are not regularly exchanged with the cold waters of the Atlantic.
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 rugen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is situated off the coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the Baltic Sea.
Rügen is mainly accessible by a bridge connecting the island with the city of Stralsund on the mainland.
Towns on the island of Rügen: Bergen, Sassnitz, Putbus, Garz.
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 Saaremaa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island, and belongsto the west Estonian archipelago.
Saaremaa is the main island of Saare County, called Saaremaa or Saare maakond in Estonian.
It is possible to reach Saaremaa by ferry from on the Estonian mainland to Muhu island, which is itself connected to Saaremaa via a causeway.
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 Baltic Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Eastern Europeeast and central Europe, and the DenmarkDanish islands.
Bay of Pomerania lies north of the islands of Usedom and Wolin, east of Rügen. Bornholm Basin is the area east of Bornholm and Arkona Basin extends from Bornholm to the Danish isles of Falster and Zealand.
The ÖresundSound, the Belts, and the Kattegat connect the Baltic Sea with the Skagerrak and the North Sea.
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 The Baltic Sea Islands
Hiiumaa is the second largest island in Estonia, separated from the mainland by a 22 km wide strait.
Saaremaa - literally Land of Islands - is the second biggest island in the Baltic Sea with an area of 2 668 square km.
At the same time Saaremaa is the biggest island of the Republic of Estonia and situated close to the western coast of the mainland of Estonia.
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 Baltic Islands : Introduction | Frommers.com
Two of the most rewarding destinations in all of Scandinavia lie in the Baltic Sea: the islands of Öland and Gotland, each with a long history and each popular in summer when the Swedes themselves flock here for sunshine and beaches.
This flat, rural Baltic island is covered in windmills and connected to southern Sweden by one of the longest bridges in Europe.
To the west, the twin Lilla and Stora Karlsö islands are famed for their huge colonies of guillemots and other sea birds.
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 Sweden-Baltic-Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Set to join the list of protected marine areas like Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the Florida Keys, the Baltic Sea is expected to be designated a sensitive area, making it easier to protect it by the countries that share it.
Adamson said some of the measures could include the adoption of special sea lanes and areas that would have to be avoided by maritime traffic.
The sea is a major transit route for tankers leaving from the Baltic States.
www.cp.org /english/online/full/science/040402/g040218A.html   (308 words)

  
 The Baltic Sea as the Development Engine of Europe
The Baltic Sea Seven Islands Cooperation is a perfect example of an efficiently functioning cooperation network evolving on the coasts of the Baltic Sea.
Even today, the Baltic Sea region is one of the innovation centers of the European Union: in the field of information technology, it has good prospects for becoming Europe’s research center.
The Baltic Sea is the central axis of the economy of Northern Europe.
www.state.gov /p/eur/rls/rm/2003/28925.htm   (2220 words)

  
 Cruise the Baltic Sea with FAMILYHOSTEL!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tour this city that "floats on water," with its 40 bridges connecting 14 islands.
Founded by Tsar Peter I in 1703, St. Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia, with some of the world's finest art museums and most opulent palaces.
Some 360 bridges connect the islands of the city, decorated with beautiful palaces and onion-domed churches.
www.learn.unh.edu /familyhostel/FH04BalticCruise.html   (883 words)

  
 Saaremaa biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is located in the Baltic Sea, to south of Hiiumaa island, belonging to the west Estonian archipelago.
The Swedish and German name of the island is Ösel, in Finnish it's called Saarenmaa, literally isle's land.
It is possible to reach Saaremaa by ferry from Virtsu on the Estonian mainland to Muhu island, which is itself connected to Saaremaa via a causeway.
saaremaa.biography.ms   (268 words)

  
 Baltic vs. Black Sea - Cruise Critic Message Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Darnelles, Sea of Mamara and the Bosphorus were breath taking and the countries that you will visit on the Sea itself (Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria) always had brass bands to welcome us.
I did the Baltic on a small ship (the RSSC Song of Flower), 180 pax, and we were berthed right smack in the middle of St. Petersburg.
We like the idea of the extra sea days and are looking forward to ending in Amsterdam which we have never seen.
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 Speech on Cooperation through Networking - Contributions by the Cities in the Baltic Sea Region by Mr Anders Engström ...
Union of the Baltic Cities, UBC is a network of about 100 cities in 10 countries in the Baltic Sea Region.
From transportation point of view, Finland, Sweden and Norway can be regarded as islands, since the by far largest part of the foreign trade crosses the sea, even now after the opening of the Öresund bridge, of course except the trade between Norway and Sweden.
I was in fact the first local authority leader ever to visit Kaliningrad in 1991, and most of the eastern regions of the Baltic Sea region were totally closed until the fall of the Soviet Empire.
www.ubc.net /today/010529.html   (1288 words)

  
 Baltic Sea - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Teutonic Knights: From the Holy Land to the Baltic Sea
From the Baltic to the Black Sea: Studies in Medieval Archaeology (One World Archaeology, 18)
The Baltic and North Seas (Seas in History)
www.unipedia.info /Baltic_Sea.html   (1956 words)

  
 CBSS - Annual Conference B7 Islands: Statement by the Estonian Prime Minister (5 Dec)
The Baltic Sea Seven Islands Co-operation is a perfect example of an efficiently functioning co-operation network evolving on the coasts of the Baltic Sea.
Even today, the Baltic Sea region is one of the innovation centres of the European Union: in the field of information technology, it has good prospects for becoming Europe’s research centre.
The co-operation on the coasts of Baltic Sea should rest on three pillars: exchange of knowledge and transfer of best practices, environmental issues and protection of common interests on EU level.
www.cbss.st /documents/cbsspresidencies/12estonian/b7islands/dbaFile3318.html   (2223 words)

  
 Jaana Lehtimäki: Characterisation of Cyanobacterial Strains Originating from the Baltic Sea with Emphasis on ...
In the Baltic Sea, late-summer blooms of nitrogen fixing filamentous cyanobacteria are an annual phenomenon (Kononen, 1992).
The dominance of Nodularia increased whereas the proportion of Aphanizomenon decreased towards the southern Baltic Sea.
Phytoplankton was P limited in the Bothnian Bay and the coastal area of the Bothnian Sea, and N limited in the offshore Bothnian Sea.
ethesis.helsinki.fi /julkaisut/maa/skemi/vk/lehtimaki/ch1.htm   (6041 words)

  
 The Baltic Sea Region Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
This background study for the VASAB 2010 PLUS Spatial Development Action Programme presents the most significant spatial trends in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) and highlights some fundamental challenges in the area that are in need of special attention.
Figure 1-6: Population density in the Baltic Sea Region 1998
Figure 4-4: Land use as a function of distance from the coast in the Baltic Sea drainage basin
www.nordregio.se /bsr/report.htm   (548 words)

  
 Cruising on Silver Cloud in Baltic Sea to enticing ports in Northern Europe.
Cruising on Silver Cloud in Baltic Sea to enticing ports in Northern Europe.
An excellent list of wines and beers was included in your cruise costs for those with a potent-potable palate.
It was their ultimate vacation and they had come to love and enjoy Silversea's superior quality of relaxation and service.
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 List of islands of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is a list of islands of Germany.
Islands of Trave river including Pötenitzer Wiek and Dassower See
This page was last modified 23:15, 6 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands_of_Germany   (66 words)

  
 List of islands of Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of islands of Finland
See also: List of islands in the Baltic Sea, List of islands
This page was last modified 11:26, 2 February 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands_of_Finland   (56 words)

  
 IngentaConnect Effects of island isolation and feral mink removal on bird commun...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Effects of island isolation and feral mink removal on bird communities on small islands in the Baltic Sea
However, many of the bird species breeding on islands are currently threatened by introduced predators because they may lack mechanisms to confront the threats of the new predator.
Therefore, our results indicate that increasing island isolation may increase the number of bird species and their numbers, because island isolation slows down mink dispersal.
www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bsc/janim/2004/00000073/00000003/art00003   (419 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of islands in the Baltic Sea Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ipedia.com: List of islands in the Baltic Sea Article
Table of contents 1 Listed by Size 2 Listed by population 3 See also Listed by Size Gotland Saaremaa Öland Hiiumaa Rügen Bornholm Usedom Wolin Listed by po...
List of islands in the Baltic Sea Article - ipedia.com
www.ipedia.com /list_of_islands_in_the_baltic_sea.html   (164 words)

  
 Vacation rental Rugen, Vacation Apartments Rugen, Rügen (Baltic Sea - Islands) - Vacation Apartments Altvater directly ...
You find this vacation dwelling directly at the Bodden (s scratch Wiek) in quiet unspoilt surroundings on the peninsula Zudar in the city Zudar.
Here a list of particularly beautiful places which doesn't have any claim to completeness.
Culture and museums: Sea museum Stralsund, Putbus -- town plant and park, museum for grasping in Prora, the "Rugard", the Garz oldest town reproach, seriousness Moritz Arndt Museum.
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