Chapter 515: Baltic Sea
It is said that if the Russian ships had not made serious mistakes in the use of artillery (a large number of shells were unnecessarily expended, which affected the course of the battle with the cruisers "Roon" and "Lübeck"), the results of this naval battle would have been even greater. In this naval battle, for the first time in history, the Russian fleet used the information obtained from radio reconnaissance to guide its own warships to fight the enemy ships.
The island has a unique style, Ye Chao has a lot of fun here, it's the things on the island, of course, it's not as rich as those big cities.
After swimming on the island, Ye Chao went directly to the sea this time.
Of course, swimming in the sea is not swimming, but renting a boat to swim.
For ordinary people, of course, the rent is very expensive, but Ye Chao rented an overlord ship this time, and directly affected it with his heart, and the rent was not paid, so he drove the boat away.
And those people, of course, thought that he had already paid the rent.
The sea of this place, of course, is the Baltic Sea.
The Baltic Sea, the world's lowest salinity sea, is more than 1,600 kilometers long, with an average width of 190 kilometers, an area of 420,000 square kilometers, and a total water storage of 23,000 cubic kilometers, making it the largest brackish water area on the planet, with a water depth of 70-100 meters, an average depth of 55 meters, and a depth of 459 meters in the deepest Gotland Trench.
The Baltic Sea is named after the Baltic Mountains from Szczecin, Poland to Revere, the Baltic Sea is called the East China Sea by Western European countries (such as Britain, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, etc.), and by Estonia in Eastern Europe as "L? auml nemeri", which means the West Sea.
The Baltic Sea is the inland sea of northern Europe, the marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, and the subordinate sea of the Atlantic Ocean. The world's largest brackish water body. Between Scandinavia and continental Europe. It stretches northeast from 54° north latitude to near the Arctic Circle. It is more than 1,600 kilometers long, with an average width of 190 kilometers and an area of 420,000 square kilometers.
The Baltic Sea is located in northeastern Europe between 54° and 65.5° north latitude, with a trifurcation shape, and is connected to the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean by the Straits of Skagerrak, Øresund, Kattegat Strait, Great Belt, Little Belt, Riga and other straits in the west.
The Baltic Sea is surrounded by land on almost all sides, and the entire sea surface is between nine countries: Sweden, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It extends eastward into the Gulf of Finland between Finland, Estonia and Russia, and northward into the Gulf of Bothnia between Finland and Sweden.
The western part is connected to the North Sea by the Strait of Skagerrak. A little east, the Kattegat Strait separates Denmark from Sweden. The islands of Bornholm, Oland, Gotland and Aland are included in the sea.
To the north is the Gulf of Bothnia, and to the east is the Gulf of Finland, which juts out between Finland and Russia. The countries surrounding the Baltic Sea are Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Poland, Germany and Denmark.
Since the Tertiary period, the Baltic Sea and its surrounding areas have experienced many alternations of land and water. The Baltic Sea was formed after the end of the last glacial period and the massive melting of glaciers.
This makes the coast of the Baltic Sea complex and diverse, with a very tortuous coastline, with lowland, sandy and lagoon coasts in the south and southeast, and high and steep reef-type coasts in the north, with seafloor sediments dominated by sand, clay and glacial soft mud.
The Baltic Sea is dotted with islands and bays, including Bornholm, Gotland, Öland, Rügen, and Gotland, as well as the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, and the Gulf of Riga.
The Baltic Sea Plain is part of an ocean formed by the dissolution of the Scandinavian ice sheet at the end of the Ice Age. The deepest point is between the southeast coast of Sweden and the island of Gotland, where the water depth is more than 459 meters. The seafloor is separated by many basins separated by shallow ridges.
The Baltic Sea is located in the transition zone from a temperate oceanic climate to a continental climate, west of the year
The average annual precipitation in the north is about 500 mm, more than 600 mm in the south, and up to 1000 mm in individual sea areas. The surrounding rivers have abundant runoff.
The Baltic region has about 60% cloud cover in summer and more than 80% in winter. The southern and central parts of the country have an average of 59 foggy days per year, with the northern Gulf of Bothnia having the least fog days at about 22 days per year.
Because the North Atlantic Warm Current is difficult to enter the Baltic Sea, the sea water is not regulated, resulting in relatively low winter temperatures with a large difference between the north and south, and low temperatures in summer with little difference between north and south.
The water temperature increases from north to south, and the surface water temperature in August is 9°C-13°C in the Gulf of Bothnia, 15°C-17°C in the Gulf of Finland, 14°C-18°C in the central part of the sea area, and 20°C in the western sea area. From February to March, the water temperature in the open sea area is 1°C-3°C, and the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga and other bays are below 0°C.
From south to north, the average temperature ranges from minus 1.1°C to 10.3°C in January and 17.5°C to 15.6°C in July.
The waters of the Baltic Sea coast are shallow and light, and they freeze easily.
The northern and eastern seas usually have a period of unfavourable ice cover each year, and from the beginning of November onwards, the northern part begins to freeze, and the area covered by ice varies from year to year. In a typical year, sea ice is found only in the bays.
It is only in severe winter that almost the entire sea area is covered with ice. The average thickness of sea ice is 65 cm. The Gulf of Bothnia was frozen for 210 days, the central Gulf of Finland and near Stockholm for 185 days, the Gulf of Riga for 80-90 days, and the coasts of Poland and Germany for 30-40 days.
The south is usually not frozen, but the straits between Sweden and Denmark are sometimes frozen. The northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia is also prone to the formation of large ice packs, which can sometimes reach up to 15 metres in height, making it difficult to transport by sea, through which ships can only dig channels in the frozen sea and move slowly.
The Baltic Sea is an important shipping route for Northern Europe, an important passage for trade between Russia and Europe, an important body of water between littoral countries and to the North Sea and the North Atlantic, and since the time of Peter the Great, the Baltic Sea has been an important export for Russia to Europe.
Russia, in cooperation with Iran, India and other countries, is planning a "North-South Corridor" connecting the Indian Ocean and Western Europe, with the Baltic Sea as the northern terminus.
The Baltic Sea is shallow and light, and it freezes easily. At the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia and off the coast of Finland, sometimes ice accumulates up to 15 meters high. The ice floes that form in the Åland Islands and the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland are up to 91 centimeters thick.
With the exception of particularly cold winters, there is a navigable connection between Stockholm, Turku and Helsinki.
Since the beginning of the 90s of the 20th century, the number of steamers sailing in the Baltic Sea has increased dramatically, and more than 40,000 ships sail the main channel of the Baltic Sea every year. The Baltic Sea is connected by ferries to the major ports of the coastal countries. It is connected to the White Sea and through the White Sea-Baltic Canal, and to the Volga through the Lenin-Volga-Baltic Sea Road.