Near the Danish straits the salinity is close to that of the Kattegat, but still not fully oceanic, because the saltiest water that passes the straits is still already mixed with considerable amounts of outflow water.

Its position gives Denmark complete control of the Danish Straits ( Skagerrak and Kattegat ) linking Baltic and North Seas.

The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Øresund and the Danish Straits.

The main islands of the Kattegat are Samsø, Læsø and Anholt, where the latter two, due to their dry summer climate, are referred to as the Danish desert belt.

Øresund is one of the three Danish Straits that connects the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean via Kattegat, Skagerrak and the North Sea, and is one of the busiest waterways in the world.

* Skagerrak, Kattegat, and the Danish straits which together connect the North Sea to the Baltic Sea.

Samsø ( Anglicized: " Samso " or " Samsoe ") is a Danish island in the Kattegat off the Jutland Peninsula.

Læsø (" Isle of Hlér ") is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located off the northeast coast of the Jutland Peninsula, the Danish mainland.

They then proceeded through the Danish Islands into the Kattegat.

The Cabinet decided to act and on 14 July Lord Mulgrave obtained from the King permission to send a naval force of 21 to 22 ships to the Kattegat for surveillance of the Danish navy in order to pursue " prompt and vigorous operations " if that seemed necessary.

Æbelø is a Danish island in the Kattegat, off Funen's north coast.

The fort was the homeport for the Danish – Norwegian Kattegat squadron.

Gustav Vasa's Sweden was in a weak position in 1523, as access to the North Sea was dominated by the Danish Sound Dues and limited to a 20 kilometer stretch on the Kattegat in the vicinity of Älvsborg Fortress, where modern Gothenburg was later founded.

Anholt () is a Danish island in the Kattegat, midway between Jutland and Sweden, with 171 permanent residents as of 1 January 2010.

The island is located in the Kattegat between the Danish mainland of Jutland and the island of Zealand ( Sjælland ).

Ferry service via Mols-linien connects the former municipality at the town of Sjællands Odde northwest over the Kattegat to the Danish mainland, the Jutland peninsula, at Århus and Ebeltoft.

Waterways that drain into the Kattegat are the rivers of Göta älv at Gothenburg, together with the Lagan, Nissan, Ätran and Viskan from the province of Halland on the Swedish side, and the river of Gudenå from Jutland, in Denmark.

Currently, a proposed bridge from Jutland to Zealand across the southern part of Kattegat is under political consideration in Denmark, linking the islands of Zealand and Samsø with continental Denmark.

The former municipality is surrounded by water on three side: to the north is the Kattegat, to the west is the channel leading into the Isefjord, and to the south is Roskilde Fjord and the channel leading into it from the Isefjord.

Because Læsø is an island and lies in the Kattegat, its neighboring municipality, Frederikshavn on the Jutland peninsula, is separated by water, the Læsø Rende, from the island municipality.

A second tanker, the Kattegat which had sailed to Norway from Wilhelmshaven, had been sunk in the Glomfjord in the evening of 9 April.

Kattegat had been delayed from reaching Narvik in time by the British 8 April mining operations off Norway.

Fishing remains essentially private — apart from on the biggest five lakes and the coast of the Baltic Sea, the Sound, Kattegat and Skagerrak.

This took time for the ships were so thick upon the Kattegat that one could walk across the Sound on the ships from Zealand to Skåne as if there was a bridge.

It extends from Thyborøn Channel on the North Sea to Hals on the Kattegat.

The Allies initiated their plans on the following day, with sixteen Allied submarines ordered to the Skagerrak and Kattegat to serve as a screen and advance warning for a German response to Operation Wilfred, which was launched the following day when Admiral William Whitworth in HMS Renown set out from Scapa Flow for the Vestfjorden with twelve destroyers.

* The Great Belt ( Storebælt )— the strait which separates Zealand from the island of Funen ) and the Kattegat to the west

Neighboring former municipality Juelsminde to the south is separated from the municipality by the waters of the Kattegat and Horsens Fjord, and neighboring island municipality Samsø to the east is separated from the municipality by the Kattegat.

Ragnhildsholmen is an island in the Göta älv, a river that drains Lake Vänern into Kattegat, across from Konghelle.

Both names Skagerrak and Kattegat are commonly held to be of Dutch origin.

According to the definition established in a 1932 convention signed by Denmark, Norway and Sweden ( registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series 199-1933 ), the northern boundary between Kattegat and Skagerrak is found at the northernmost point of Skagen on Jutland and the southern boundary towards Oresund is found at the tip of Kullen Peninsula in Scania.

Dead zones exist off the East Coast of the United States in the Chesapeake Bay, in the Scandinavian strait Kattegat, the Black Sea ( which may have been anoxic in its deepest levels for millennia, however ), in the northern Adriatic as well as a dead zone off the coast of Louisiana.

Because Trundholm is located near the end of a peninsula and because it features a long spit of land, Zealand's Point ( Sjællands Odde ), at its northwest which stretches out into the Kattegat, it is surrounded by much water.

To the east is Nykøbing Bay ( Nykøbing Bugt ), an inlet of the larger Isefjord, to the north is Nyrup Bay ( Nyrup Bugt ) and Hesselø Bay ( Hesselø Bugt ), to the west of the point is the Kattegat, and to the south of the point is Sejrø Bay ( Sejrø Bugt ).

It is also bounded by the two largest Swedish lakes Vänern and Vättern, with a small strip to the Kattegat sea area.

Entering the Kattegat on 20 May Bismarck and Prinz Eugen sailed north toward the Skagerrak, the straight between Jutland and Southern Norway where they were sighted by the Swedish aircraft-carrying cruiser Gotland on around 1: 00 pm.

On 21 May, the Admiralty was alerted by sources in the Swedish government that two large warships had been seen in the Kattegat.

The Göta älv is a river that drains lake Vänern into the Kattegat at the city of Gothenburg on the western coast of Sweden.

The Kattegat is a continuation of the Skagerrak and may be seen as either a bay of the Baltic Sea, a bay of the North Sea, or, in traditional Scandinavian usage, neither of these.

The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the " Kattegat, Sound and Belts " ( that is, the Kattegat, Øresund, Great Belt and Little Belt ) as follows:

is: Kattegat

The area is characterized by sand and dunes, especially on its northern side facing the Kattegat, but also found in the central areas and in the south.

The house is situated above the beach, and offers a beautiful view of the Kattegat.