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.
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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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Denmark aims to claim the North Pole and hunt for oil in high Arctic regions that may become more accessible because of global warming, the Science Ministry said Monday.
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The world's longest underwater pipeline is due to begin feeding gas from Norway to the UK.
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A renewable energy system built in the Highlands is to be tried out in the sea off Orkney.
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The remains of the mother of the last Russian tsar are to travel by ship from Denmark to Russia.
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Sailors are bracing for the arrival in Norfolk this weekend of one of the bravest and most accomplished offshore skippers on earth. When Bernard Stamm rolls in, probably sometime Saturday, it will mark the end of 14,250 hard miles at sea, alone in a scary-fast sailboat.
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Denmark aims to show the North Pole belongs to it and is sending an expedition to try to prove that the seabed there is a natural continuation of Danish territory, the Science Ministry said on Monday.
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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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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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A barnacle goose from south west Scotland breaks the record time for crossing the North Sea to Norway.
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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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Russia and St. Petersburg in particular are not to blame for the lion's share of pollution in the Baltic Sea, an expedition into the Gulf of Finland by a ship carrying representatives of the local office of the ...
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The world's first cargo ship partially powered by a giant kite has set sail from Germany to Venezuela, the company behind the project said Tuesday.
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Norwegian oil company Statoil said Friday it had set up the biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Europe in the Barents Sea.
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A team of explorers sets sail from the US for Spain in a reed boat, aiming to prove the possibility of a pre-Columbus crossing.
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Aker Finnyards, a part of Aker Yards, has signed a Letter of Intent with Sweden's B & N Nordsjofrakt covering construction of three container vessels.