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SKAGERRACK

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 165 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SKAGERRACK , the See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm of the See also:

North See also:

Sea which gives See also:

ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access to the See also:

CATTEGAT, or KATTEGAT (Scand. " cat's-throat ")

Cattegat and so to the Baltic . It is about 140 M. See also:

long and 75 broad . On the Danish See also:

SHORE

shore, which is See also:

low and beset with See also:

sand-See also:

banks, the strait is shallow . Towards the steep See also:

NORWEGIAN

Norwegian See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast its deepest See also:

PART

part is found, 443 fathoms .

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