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  • Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire"), is an archipelago ... The total area is 73746|km2|sqmi|0|lk=on|abbr=on about two-thirds of ...
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  • The Faeroe Islands (or Faroe Islands, sometimes simply called Faroes ... The Faroes have close traditional ties to Iceland, Shetland, Orkney ...
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  • This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according ... * Sovereign states (country names in bold), consisting of: ...
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  • Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region including the ... The term has also been used to refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula ...
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  • A fjord (or fiord) is a long, narrow deep inlet of the sea bordered ... The seeds of a fjord are laid when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley ...
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  • liners, or other cargo or passenger ships. The terms dockyards and shipyards ... regulations have resulted in movement of the industry to developing regions. ...
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  • The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic ... The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending ...
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  • Cod is the common name for various marine fish of the genus Gadus ... fish for over a thousand years, helping in the fostering of cross cultural ...
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  • The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic ...
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  • Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... A sparse population is confined to small settlements along the coast ...
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  • A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes ... ). Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on ...
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  • Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland, is a country of northwestern ... Iceland has been inhabited since about the year 874 when, according ...
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  • Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on ... Originally a Viking fishing village known as "Havn," in ...
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  • is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...
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  • The Kingdom of Norway, commonly known as Norway, is a Nordic country ... Norway plays a significant role in the pursuit of stability and world ...
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  • Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... In the main remembered for their ferocity and pillaging raids, the ...
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