Strait Gallery

The Baltic Sea and Its Approaches, First World War, c1915, (c1920)

The Baltic Sea and Its Approaches, First World War, c1915, (c1920). Map of part of northern Europe, showing sections of the coasts of Norway, Sweden, Russia, Germany and Denmark. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume IV, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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Allegory of the Battle of Salamis, 1858 (oil on canvas)

2973583 Allegory of the Battle of Salamis, 1858 (oil on canvas) by Kaulbach, Wilhelm von (1805-74); length: 535 cm; Bayerische Landtag, Munich, Germany; (add.info.: The Battle of Salamis was a naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles and the Persian Empire under King Xerxes in 480 BC which resulted in a decisive victory for the outnumbered Greeks. The battle was fought in the straits between the mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens, and marked the high-point of the second Persian invasion of Greece.); A© Giancarlo Costa; German, out of copyright

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Norway, Svalbard, Nordaustlandet, Setting

Norway, Svalbard, Nordaustlandet, Setting sun lights ice face of tidewater glacier in Palanderbukta Bay along Gustav Adolf Land on stormy evening Date: 17/07/2007

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Adolf, Arctic, Awe, Beauty, Blue, Clouds, Cold, Day, Daylight, Daytime, Dramatic, Glacial, Glacier, Gustav, Hinlopen, Horizontal, Ice, Land, Landscape, Nature, Nordaustlandet, North, Northeast, Norway, Outdoors, Palanderbukta, Paul, Remote, Setting, Souders, Spitsbergen, Storm, Stormy, Strait, Summer, Sunset, Svalbard, White, Wilderness