Table of Contents
- 1 Which sea separates Iceland from the Scandinavian peninsula?
- 2 Why is Iceland considered Nordic?
- 3 What separates the North Sea from the Baltic Sea?
- 4 What is a Nordic Viking?
- 5 Are Norsemen Vikings?
- 6 Is Iceland Scandinavian and Nordic?
- 7 Where are the Nordic Seas located in Iceland?
- 8 When does sea ice form in the Nordic Sea?
- 9 What are the countries of the Nordic countries?
Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea, German Ostsee, Swedish Östersjön, Russian Baltiyskoye More, Finnish Itämeri, Polish Morze Bałtyckie, arm of the North Atlantic Ocean, extending northward from the latitude of southern Denmark almost to the Arctic Circle and separating the Scandinavian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe.
Why is Iceland considered Nordic?
Scandinavians would argue that Iceland is Nordic, due to it not being centrally located or connected to Europe. However, they would also say that while Finland neighbors Sweden, and shares other similarities, Finnish is just too different from Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish.
What are the Nordic seas?
The Nordic Seas are located north of Iceland and south of Svalbard. They have also been defined as the region located north of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge and south of the Fram Strait-Spitsbergen-Norway intersection. There are three seas within the Nordic Sea: Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea, and Iceland Sea.
What separates the North Sea from the Baltic Sea?
The three Danish straits, the Great Belt, the Little Belt and The Sound (Öresund/Øresund), connect the Baltic Sea with the Kattegat and Skagerrak strait in the North Sea.
What is a Nordic Viking?
Viking, also called Norseman or Northman, member of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the 9th to the 11th century and whose disruptive influence profoundly affected European history.
Is Iceland Nordic or Scandinavian?
Nordic countries is used unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, including their associated territories (Svalbard, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands).
Are Norsemen Vikings?
The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic ethnolinguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language. In English-language scholarship since the 19th century, Norse seafaring traders, settlers and warriors have commonly been referred to as Vikings.
However, in English usage, the term Scandinavia is sometimes used as a synonym or near-synonym for Nordic countries. Nordic countries is used unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, including their associated territories (Svalbard, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands).
What body of water is found in the Scandinavian region?
The name of the peninsula is derived from the term Scandinavia, the cultural region of Denmark, Norway and Sweden….Scandinavian Peninsula.
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Adjacent bodies of water | Arctic Sea, Atlantic Ocean |
| Area | 750,000 km2 (290,000 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 2,469 m (8100 ft) |
| Highest point | Galdhøpiggen |
Where are the Nordic Seas located in Iceland?
The Nordic Seas are located north of Iceland and south of Svalbard.
When does sea ice form in the Nordic Sea?
During the winter, sea ice is formed in the western and northern regions of the Nordic Seas, whereas during the summer months, the majority of the region remains free of ice. Several water masses are found interacting in the Nordic Sea.
Where does the water leave the Nordic Seas?
There are several gyre circulations that occur in the Nordic Seas. The subsurface waters leave the Nordic Seas through the south from overflows between Greenland and Scotland. The intermediate water leaves through the Denmark Straight and the Iceland Ridge. The densest overflow waters leave through the Faroe Bank Channel.
What are the countries of the Nordic countries?
Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Sverige), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and water borders with Denmark, Germany, and Poland to the south, and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia to the east.