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Kattegat

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==Geography==
==Geography==
[[File:Gothenburg juli 2009 (ubt)-000.JPG|thumb|[[Älvsborg Castle|Älvsborg]] at Gothenburg, a sea fortress in the Kattegat]]
[[File:Gothenburg juli 2009 (ubt)-000.JPG|thumb|[[Älvsborg Castle|Älvsborg]] at Gothenburg, a sea fortress in the Kattegat]]
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===Bathymetry===
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The Kattegat has an average depth of 22 meters, deeper than the Danish straits but shallower than the [[Baltic Sea]] and much shallower than the [[Skagerrak]], with its [[Norwegian Trench]] stretching to depths of over 700 meters.{{cite journal |last1=Jakobsson |first1=Martin |last2=Stranne |first2=Christian |last3=O'Regan |first3=Matt |last4=Greenwood |first4=Sarah L. |last5=Gustafsson |first5=Bo |last6=Humborg |first6=Christoph |last7=Weidner |first7=Elizabeth |title=Bathymetric properties of the Baltic Sea |journal=Ocean Science |volume=15 |issue=4 |date=16 July 2019 |issn=1812-0792 |doi=10.5194/os-15-905-2019 |doi-access=free |pages=905–924}}{{cite journal |last1=Longva |first1=Oddvar |last2=Olsen |first2=Heidi A. |last3=Piper |first3=David J.W. |last4=Rise |first4=Leif |last5=Thorsnes |first5=Terje |title=Late glacial fans in the eastern Skagerrak; depositional environment interpreted from swath bathymetry and seismostratigraphy |journal=Marine Geology |volume=251 |issue=1-2 |date=2008 |doi=10.1016/j.margeo.2008.02.011 |pages=110–111 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025322708000595 |access-date=20 April 2026}}{{cite journal |last1=Bøe |first1=Reidulv |last2=Rise |first2=Leif |last3=Ottesen |first3=Dag |title=Elongate depressions on the southern slope of the Norwegian Trench (Skagerrak): morphology and evolution |journal=Marine Geology |volume=146 |issue=1-4 |date=1998 |doi=10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00133-3 |pages=192–193 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025322797001333 |access-date=20 April 2026}}


Major [[waterway]]s that drain into the Kattegat are the rivers of [[Göta älv]] at [[Gothenburg]], together with the [[Lagan River (Sweden)|Lagan]], [[Nissan (river)|Nissan]], [[Ätran (river)|Ätran]] and [[Viskan]] in the province of [[Halland]] on the Swedish side, and the Danish river of [[Gudenå]] in Jutland.
Major [[waterway]]s that drain into the Kattegat are the rivers of [[Göta älv]] at [[Gothenburg]], together with the [[Lagan River (Sweden)|Lagan]], [[Nissan (river)|Nissan]], [[Ätran (river)|Ätran]] and [[Viskan]] in the province of [[Halland]] on the Swedish side, and the Danish river of [[Gudenå]] in Jutland.
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Since the 1950s, a bridge proposal usually referred to as ''Kattegatbroen'' (the [[Kattegat Bridge]]) to connect Jutland and [[Zealand (Denmark)|Zealand]] across the Kattegat has been considered. Since the late 2000s, there has been renewed interest in it from several influential politicians in Denmark. Such a bridge is usually envisioned as connecting Hov (a village south of [[Odder]] in the Aarhus area) with Samsø and [[Kalundborg]].{{cite news|url=http://ing.dk/artikel/ingenioren-1955-byg-bro-over-samso-81947 |title=Ingeniøren 1955: Byg bro over Samsø [Build a bridge across Samsø] |newspaper=Ingeniøren|author=Rolf Ask Clausen |language=da|date=2 October 2007 |access-date=16 February 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://kattegatforbindelse.dk/|title=En fast Kattegatforbindelse|website=kattegatforbindelse.dk|publisher=Kattegatkomitéen|language=da|access-date=15 May 2017|archive-date=23 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423035315/http://kattegatforbindelse.dk/|url-status=live}}
Since the 1950s, a bridge proposal usually referred to as ''Kattegatbroen'' (the [[Kattegat Bridge]]) to connect Jutland and [[Zealand (Denmark)|Zealand]] across the Kattegat has been considered. Since the late 2000s, there has been renewed interest in it from several influential politicians in Denmark. Such a bridge is usually envisioned as connecting Hov (a village south of [[Odder]] in the Aarhus area) with Samsø and [[Kalundborg]].{{cite news|url=http://ing.dk/artikel/ingenioren-1955-byg-bro-over-samso-81947 |title=Ingeniøren 1955: Byg bro over Samsø [Build a bridge across Samsø] |newspaper=Ingeniøren|author=Rolf Ask Clausen |language=da|date=2 October 2007 |access-date=16 February 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://kattegatforbindelse.dk/|title=En fast Kattegatforbindelse|website=kattegatforbindelse.dk|publisher=Kattegatkomitéen|language=da|access-date=15 May 2017|archive-date=23 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423035315/http://kattegatforbindelse.dk/|url-status=live}}

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===Bathymetry===
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The Kattegat has an average depth of 22 meters, deeper than the Danish straits but shallower than the [[Baltic Sea]] and much shallower than the [[Skagerrak]], with its [[Norwegian Trench]] stretching to depths of over 700 meters.{{cite journal |last1=Jakobsson |first1=Martin |last2=Stranne |first2=Christian |last3=O'Regan |first3=Matt |last4=Greenwood |first4=Sarah L. |last5=Gustafsson |first5=Bo |last6=Humborg |first6=Christoph |last7=Weidner |first7=Elizabeth |title=Bathymetric properties of the Baltic Sea |journal=Ocean Science |volume=15 |issue=4 |date=16 July 2019 |issn=1812-0792 |doi=10.5194/os-15-905-2019 |doi-access=free |pages=905–924}}{{cite journal |last1=Longva |first1=Oddvar |last2=Olsen |first2=Heidi A. |last3=Piper |first3=David J.W. |last4=Rise |first4=Leif |last5=Thorsnes |first5=Terje |title=Late glacial fans in the eastern Skagerrak; depositional environment interpreted from swath bathymetry and seismostratigraphy |journal=Marine Geology |volume=251 |issue=1-2 |date=2008 |doi=10.1016/j.margeo.2008.02.011 |pages=110–111 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025322708000595 |access-date=20 April 2026}}{{cite journal |last1=Bøe |first1=Reidulv |last2=Rise |first2=Leif |last3=Ottesen |first3=Dag |title=Elongate depressions on the southern slope of the Norwegian Trench (Skagerrak): morphology and evolution |journal=Marine Geology |volume=146 |issue=1-4 |date=1998 |doi=10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00133-3 |pages=192–193 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025322797001333 |access-date=20 April 2026}}


==History==
==History==
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