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North coast of Denmark. The Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, passes between southern Norway and northern Denmark, connecting the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. It travels through the Kattegat, a sea passage that is only 135 km/85 mi wide at it broadest point.

Strait between Denmark and Sweden. It is about 240 km/150 mi long and 135 km/85 mi wide at its broadest point, and joins the Skagerrak on the north to the Baltic Sea on the south. Its sandbanks are a navigational hazard.



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Mercury concentration of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena and other cetaceans from the North Sea and Kattegat.
The peninsula is cut across by the sinuous path of the Limfjord, a long sea-water thoroughfare that links the North Sea and the Kattegat with a twisting silver ribbon under vast skies like those seen in Dutch landscape paintings and ones of the East Anglian school.
An increased number of deaths in the Danish seal population was noticed in May 2002, starting at the Kattegat Isle of Anholt.
 
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