How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod.
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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How the 'Shetland Bus' helped Norway resist Nazi Germany – innocent-looking fishing boats delivered valuable cargo and special agents
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Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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Archeologists look at how and when humans first moved into the Pacific
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Archaeologists are investigating the possibility Vikings used shortcuts over land to help them move warships and smaller boats around Scotland's west coast
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Extraordinary Roman marble floor discovered in ancient sunken city
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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Ernest Shackleton: Famed explorer's Endurance ship gets extra protection
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge in the South Pacific before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island? | Map Men
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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SS Baychimo: The unsinkable Arctic ghost ship
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Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
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Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
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Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic
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The first Japanese man in America: A teenager shipwrecked on a Pacific atoll helped transform relations between Japan and the United States
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