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Denmark Strait

noun

  1. a strait between Iceland and Greenland. 130 miles (210 km) wide.



Denmark Strait

noun

  1. a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic

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But in May 1941 - during the battle of the Denmark Strait in the North Atlantic - it was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck.

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In May 1941, the Bismarck, Germany’s mightiest warship, had become a prime target after it sank one of England’s most powerful vessels, the battle cruiser Hood, in the battle of the Denmark Strait, between Iceland and Greenland.

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Crossing the Denmark Strait, the 199-passenger Le Boreal then spends several days tracing the southern coast of Greenland, launching Zodiacs for more intimate explorations of fjords, glaciers, icebergs and the Arctic tundra.

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The Hood was sunk by the German ship Bismarck in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland in 1941, with only three survivors.

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He was just 18 when he was one of only three people to survive in the Battle of the Denmark Strait in 1941 - an encounter which saw 1,415 people killed in the Navy's biggest single loss of life from a ship during WW2.

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