Kattegat

or Cat·te·gat

[ kat-i-gat, kah-ti-gaht ]

noun

1. a strait between Jutland and Sweden. 40–70 miles (64–113 km) wide.

Kattegat

/ ˈkætɪˌɡæt /

noun

1. a strait between Denmark and Sweden: linked by the Sound, the Great Belt, and the Little Belt with the Baltic Sea and by the Skagerrak with the North Sea Former spellingCattegat

Example Sentences

It may be well to notice that to go from the Kattegat to the Baltic is up, although from north to south.

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They were now in the Kattegat, and John was sitting on the upper deck when he heard a loud noise beneath him of voices and cries.

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Fires are stated to have been used on the two towers of Nidingen, in the Kattegat, until 1846.

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They were driven down the Kattegat in their boats by the ice as far as the coast of Denmark, and there they remained.

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A year previous an earthquake took place which had its centre in the Kattegat.

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