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Gulf of Bothnia

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  • proper noun The northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a northern arm of the Baltic Sea; between Sweden and Finland

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Examples

  • In the harsh winter air he could suddenly smell bubbling water on its way out to the Gulf of Bothnia, and could see the city in front of him far off on the far shore, remembering all the old remnants of the sawmill days, the fragments of wood and other rubbish that lined the edge of the river.

    Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010

  • In the harsh winter air he could suddenly smell bubbling water on its way out to the Gulf of Bothnia, and could see the city in front of him far off on the far shore, remembering all the old remnants of the sawmill days, the fragments of wood and other rubbish that lined the edge of the river.

    Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010

  • Across the first news spread inside, pages 6 and 7, there was a night picture, taken from a plane, of the Gulf of Bothnia, with someone running within an illuminated circle of light, and the caption:

    Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010

  • Across the first news spread inside, pages 6 and 7, there was a night picture, taken from a plane, of the Gulf of Bothnia, with someone running within an illuminated circle of light, and the caption:

    Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010

  • Writing à propos of Thomas Berglund's recent article in Svenska Dagbladet on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Treaty of Fredrikshamn, at which Sweden had to sign away its territories east of the Gulf of Bothnia to Imperial Russia Berglund calls it a "national trauma", Tobias Ljungvall looks back on some of the less well-known aspects of the Finnish independence struggle.

    Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

  • From Grisslehamn, a port just north of Stockholm, Jones set out into the frozen waters of the Gulf of Bothnia.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • From Grisslehamn, a port just north of Stockholm, Jones set out into the frozen waters of the Gulf of Bothnia.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • Toward the end of November, in the year 1831, one of those rude sleighs, met with in winter on all the roads of Sweden, passed rapidly along the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia.

    International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

  • The fruit is made (in Tartary) into a pleasant jelly, because of its acid flavour, and used in the Gulf of Bothnia for concocting a fish sauce.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • In the north the Gulf of Bothnia is frozen for even longer.

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

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