The Stockholm archipelago consists of over 24, 000 islands and islets scattered across the Baltic Sea.
The Baltic Sea is semi-enclosed, so it takes a long time to flush out toxins.
You can drive from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean without even showing your passport.
The pipeline allows Siberian gas to flow directly to Germany, via twin pipelines under the Baltic Sea.
Running along the bed of the Baltic Sea, it would circumvent troublesome transit countries in eastern Europe.
Kaliningrad is geographically separated from mainland Russia and is wedged between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
Why did this mutation become so common somewhere around the shores of the Baltic sea around 6, 000 years ago?
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The 44 Squadron crew was shot down by a German fighter pilot over the Baltic Sea 70 years ago.
Germany is going ahead with a pipeline to bring gas directly from Russia under the Baltic Sea, bypassing eastern Europe.
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The northern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerian region, which sits along the coast of the Baltic Sea, was a part of former East Germany.
It has defied sceptics and critics by successfully building the Nord Stream pipeline, which runs across the Baltic Sea to Germany.
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When completed in 2011, that pipeline will connect Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea, skirting Poland and the Baltic states.
Next year he and his son will launch a similar maritime assault on the Baltic Sea routes that link Helsinki and Stockholm with Germany.
Most would rather jump into the Baltic Sea with cement boots than spend a lifetime career at Electrolux, sucking customers away from Hoover and Miele.
On 29 May, Russia began construction of what is planned to be the largest commercial port on the Baltic Sea at Ust-Luga, adjacent to the Russian-Estonian border.
The Song of the Whale crew sailed the busy fishing ground of the Baltic Sea for the first time this summer listening for signs of harbour porpoises.
The Saints will play the first, home leg at Newtown's Latham Park, with the return in Ventspils, a city in north-western Latvia on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
The Council of the Baltic Sea States, to which all countries on the Baltic rim belong, is to hold its second heads-of-government pow-wow next month in Riga, Latvia's capital.
It is an apt place to browse this fossilised tree resin that resembles gemstones, as the majority of the world's amber is found along the shores of the Baltic Sea.
To help compensate for this shortfall, the country plans to create a 50 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, and expand capacity to 10, 000 MW offshore by 2020.
He thinks that the Pacific Ocean could become for present-day Russia what the Baltic Sea was for the country in the age of Peter the Great: a source of wealth and a gate to modernity.
Huge concrete hangars from the 1920s house an interactive, kid-friendly maritime museum complete with a 1936 mine-laying submarine, a British seaplane that saw active duty in World War I and a large aquarium revealing the fishy inhabitants of the Baltic Sea.
The rule of thumb is that the further out, the greater the isolation: first plumbing, then electricity disappears, until finally, out in the Baltic Sea, tiny huts share a few metres of exposed granite with just the wind and seals.
If implemented, the Baltic Deepwater Oxygenation (Box) project would require around 100 pumping stations built around the Baltic Sea to transport oxygen deep underwater to counteract the declining amounts of oxygen and prevent the growth of the dead zone.
"If we find a mine, we inform the national authority, and we would re-route the pipeline, " he explains, adding that the real challenge is the length of the pipeline, the shallow nature of the Baltic Sea and the irregular seabed.
As a public service, it is obliged to deliver letters and packages to every corner of Germany, from islands in the Baltic Sea to the Bavarian Alps (its publicists peddle photographs of loyal employees punting down rivers to reach obscure addresses).
Northerly situated Scandinavia, which gets some of its currents from the Arctic Circle, is home to a lot of snow and cold, with Helsinki, Finland, facing the moisture of the Baltic Sea in addition to low temperature, rating tops in both categories.
Before the latest Balkan war, all in the region had been hoping for a long period of boredom, in which historical grudges, especially those involving Russians and their former empire, would fade and economic ties across the Baltic Sea would continue their sprightly growth.
Mr Milosz liked to describe himself as the last citizen of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a medieval superpower that stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea, noted for its religious and cultural tolerance.
The partly enclosed Baltic Sea is known as one of the most polluted seas in the world.
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