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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Hanseatic League, Gulf of Finland, Council of the Baltic Sea States, Baltic states, Oresund, Baltic region, Karelian Isthmus, Archipelago Sea, Curonian Spit, Baltic Pipeline System-II, British submarine flotilla in the Baltic, Ice class, Szczecin Lagoon, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Baltic Ice Lake, Yoldia Sea, Baltic Sea hypoxia, Mastogloia Sea, Ports of the Baltic Sea, Rossitten Bird Observatory, Victual Brothers, Baltic Development Forum, Curonian Lagoon, Vistula Lagoon, Kravtsovskoye oilfield, Klabautermann, Gulf of Riga, Danish straits, Hel Peninsula, Ancylus Lake, Baltic Compass, John Nurminen Foundation, List of rivers of the Baltic Sea, Sorve Peninsula, Vistula Spit, Eemian sea, Fehmarn Belt, Achterwasser, BALTOPS, Battle of Vistula Lagoon, S upsk Bank, Kalmar Strait, Little Belt, Baltic Institute, Baltic Klint, Vyborg Bay, Gloe lake, Strelasund, Irbe Strait, Baltic Sea Action Group, Bothnian Sea, Littorina Sea, Finningia, Travemunde Week, Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, Polish Exclusive Economic Zone, Gotland Basin, Fischland-Darss-Zingst, South Funen Archipelago, Sea of Aland, Baltic Proper. Excerpt: The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53 N to 66 N latitude and from 20 E to 26 E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Oresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt. The Kattegat continues through Skagerrak into the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The Baltic Sea is connected by man-made waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea Canal, and to the North Sea via the Kiel Canal. The Baltic Sea might be considered to be bordered on its northern edge by the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, and on its eastern edge by the Gu..
