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GIUK gap
Passages between the northern Atlantic Ocean and the Norwegian Sea
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anti-submarine warfare (1) · GIUK Gap (1) · NATO (1) · Royal Navy (1) · North Atlantic (1) · naval patrol (1) · strategic deterrence (1)
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The GIUK gap (sometimes written G-I-UK) is an area in the northern Atlantic Ocean that forms a naval choke point. Its name is an initialism for Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom, the gap being the two stretches of open ocean among these three landmasses. It separates the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea from the open Atlantic Ocean.
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🇺🇸 Military operation conducted to deter Russian submarines in North Atlantic
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