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The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European continental shelf. It is more than 600 miles (970 km) long an 350 miles (560 km) wide, with an area of around 222,000 square miles (570,000 km²). A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North Sea including water from the Baltic Sea. The North Sea connects with the rest of the Atlantic through the Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and through the Norwegian Sea in the north.

Trivia about north sea

  • The English Channel connects to this sea via the Strait of Dover
  • The Frisian Islands in this sea are divided among Germany, Denmark & the Netherlands
  • In 1975 the United Kingdom began piping oil from this sea to its shores
  • British Admiral David Beatty was the first Earl of this, found between Britain & Norway
  • A major waterway of western Germany, the Weser river flows 273 miles to this sea
  • 167 died in a 1988 oil rig explosion off Britain in this sea
  • Scotland's longest river, the Tay, flows into this sea, see?
  • This sea is less saline than its Atlantic connection due to fresh water from the Thames & other rivers
  • This sea lies to the north of Belgium, the Netherlands & Germany
  • The Thames & Rhine are among the many rivers emptying into this sea
  • The Rhine of Germany & the Netherlands flows into this sea
  • The Scheldt River flows through Antwerp before emptying into this sea
  • The 1916 Battle of Jutland was fought in the Skagerrak, an arm of this sea
  • Frisia is a European region bordering this sea
  • The Strait of Dover & the rest of the English Channel connect it with the Atlantic Ocean
  • The Belwind Offshore Wind Farm, Bel for Belgium, is in this sea
  • The Elbe, the Thames & the Rhine Rivers all flow into this body of water
  • Belgium's seacoast, about 40 miles long, is on this sea
  • The Thames River flows eastward past London before emptying into this sea
  • WWI's important naval Battle of Jutland took place in this sea
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier in the Netherlands.) Projects like the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier with its 800-foot doors prevent inundation of the Western or Low Netherlands by this sea
  • Frisian, a Germanic language, is spoken in 3 areas, each with its own dialect, along the coast of this sea

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