Definition of Skagerak

1. Noun. A broad strait of the North Sea between Jutland and Norway.

Exact synonyms: Skagerrak
Group relationships: North Sea
Generic synonyms: Sound, Strait

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Literary usage of Skagerak

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1899)
"... and by himself in the skagerak and Baltic, may be regarded as a result of the presence of animal life. The deeper waters of the North sea and the ..."

2. The Bathymetrical Features of the North Polar Seas: With a Discussion of the by Fridtjof Nansen (1904)
"His view seems also to be that the channel has become deepest in its inner part, in skagerak, chiefly because the erosion of the glacier was most active in ..."

3. In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times by Fridtjof Nansen (1911)
"... at any rate) and the skagerak. ... but if it has to begin at Skagen, and thus be the skagerak, it becomes still worse. ..."

4. Acta Soc. Pro Fauna Et Flora Fennica by Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (1899)
"Im skagerak fällt die Periode des Eindringens der Vertreter dieses Planktons, in die Herbst- und Wintermonate und erreicht ihr Kulmen in November—Januar. ..."

5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"almost wholly limited to Jutland, is,«JP» .,.-. the north-western extremity of the w™ . nent. The entire coast-line of D., *b| Ï/ „i Sea, skagerak, ..."

6. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"D. is bounded on the n. by the skagerak, a gulf of the North sea; on the e. by tbe ... North sea, skagerak. ..."

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