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Denmark Strait
noun
- a strait between Iceland and Greenland. 130 miles (210 km) wide.
Denmark Strait
noun
- a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
Example Sentences
But in May 1941 - during the battle of the Denmark Strait in the North Atlantic - it was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck.
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.
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.
The Hood was sunk by the German ship Bismarck in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland in 1941, with only three survivors.
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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