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the North Sea patrols of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia during World War I were so monotonous that one sailor was driven insane?
the Dogger Bank itch is a skin condition prevalent in fishermen who work in the North Sea?
the European Cenozoic Rift System extends from the Mediterranean to the North Sea?
the Higgins Industries A-1 lifeboat was first dropped by parachute to save six American airmen stranded in the North Sea in 1945?
Xanten Cathedral (interior pictured), declared a basilica minor by Pope Pius XI, may be the biggest cathedral between Cologne and the North Sea?
World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea?
Turner Contemporary, a visual arts venue in Margate, has begun construction atop a promenade so that it won't be destroyed by the North Sea?
North Sea ferry TS Leda (pictured) was rebuilt as a cruise liner, then became an accommodation vessel at a penal colony for Mafiosi, and ultimately was the scene of a Greenpeace demonstration?

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From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

The North Sea was a small sea on Earth located between Great Britain and Scandinavia.

In 1996, a Jathaa sunglider was shot down by Torchwood 1 over the sea. (DW: Army of Ghosts) Ten years later, in 2006, the Slitheen family hid their spaceship in the North Sea and sent it to London as part of their plan to destroy Earth. At the same time the nuclear submarine HMS Taurean was submerged in the North Sea, off the coast of Plymouth. (DW: Aliens of London / World War Three)

On the Northumberland coast the village of Maiden's Point was located by the bay called Maiden's Bay. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

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The North Sea was a body of water on the surface of the planet Ocampa.

The sea was located at the planet's north pole. It was formed as water evaporated and retreated to the polar and equatorial regions of the planet over the course of several centuries. (Decipher: Worlds)

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