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One of the maps in the article is titled "Northern Sea or German Ocean". I never heard "German Ocean" before. Did they mean the "Deutsche Bucht" (German Bay)?
by MoSattler 4y ago
One of the maps in the article is titled "Northern Sea or German Ocean". I never heard "German Ocean" before. Did they mean the "Deutsche Bucht" (German Bay)?
- scatters 4y ago> Before the adoption of "North Sea", the names used in English were "German Sea" or "German Ocean", referred to as the Latin names "Mare Germanicum" and "Oceanus Germanicus", and these persisted in use until the First World War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea#cite_ref-106 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea#cite_ref-106