Viking longship to sail across North Sea
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On the skipper's command, deckhands haul in tarred ropes to lower the flax sail. Oars splash into the water. The crew, grimacing with strain, pull with steady strokes sending the sleek Viking longship gliding through the fjord. A thousands years ago, the curved-prow warship might have spewed out hordes of bloodthirsty Norsemen ready to pillage and burn. This time, the spoils are adventure rather than plunder.
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Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor
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Foreign Minister Jan Petersen is attending the Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Iceland on 24 November. The most important item on the agenda is a discussion of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.
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DEN HELDER, The Netherlands  - A Dutch floating  abortion clinic set sail for Portugal Monday despite an attempt  by the Dutch government to restrict its activities and after  visits to Ireland and Poland stoked controversy.
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Senior pupils from St Machar Academy are travelling to the Faroe Islands tomorrow to take part in an oral history project with fellow pupils at a school in the islands' capital.
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Science & environment: The Arctic's sea covering has shrunk so much that the Northwest Passage, the fabled sea route that connects Europe and Asia, has opened up for the first time since records began.
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By Claire Soares  The world's first floating wind turbine could be up and running in under two years after the German engineering giant Siemens teamed up with a Norwegian energy group yesterday to try to generate electricity in the middle of the North Sea.
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EUREKA project E! 2388 LOGCHAIN MUSIC has doubled freight train capacity on the intermodal service Duisburg-Lubeck, which links Norway, Sweden and Finland to Germany and the rest of Europe, through the ...
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One of the biggest Viking treasures ever found has been discovered on an English farm by a father-son team of treasure hunters, the British Museum announced Thursday.
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OSLO/NEW YORK  - U.S.-Norwegian Royal Caribbean   Cruises Ltd. RCL.OL RCL.N agreed on Thursday to buy Spain's   biggest cruise and tour operator, Pullmantur S.A., for 430   million euros ($552 million) to boost operations in the   lucrative European cruise market.
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Avast there, Mr Computer, unfurl the sails A new commercial cargo ship which will harness wind power to achieve greater fuel economy was christened in Hamburg on Saturday. MV Beluga SkySails will use an enormous, football-pitch sized tethered aerofoil to pull itself along, in much the same way as a kite-surfer.â¦
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Royal Dutch/Shell Group announced Wednesday that it would spend US$1.8 billion on exploration and production in the North Sea, including building a pipeline to transfer gas from Norway to Britain.
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The U.S. Navy's oldest ship in full active service embarks on its last major maneuvers
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BREMEN, Germany  - Putting a harness on ocean  winds, a German shipping company plans to unfurl a giant  high-tech kite over a cargo ship next year to boost the  vessel's propulsion and to conserve fuel.
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PARIS, Aug 19 (IPS) - Over the next two years a team of scientists aboard  the French schooner "Tara" will sail the Arctic Ocean to  study the consequences of global climate change in the polar ice  environment.
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Sea trials for the wayward ferry Suomenlinna II began Monday off Helsinki. The ferry runs between mainland Helsinki and the Suomenlinna island belonging to Helsinki.
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Europe's northern seaports are on an unprecedented bull run. Terminal operators are reporting record traffic for most cargoes, from containers and crude oil, to coal and iron ore and are confidently bracing for ...