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Thinking about the Kiel Canal made me wonder what would have changed in history if :-
  • The Jutland peninsula became an Insula (island) with a channel at least as wide as the Store Baelt between Jutland and the German Coast;
  • A channel as wide as the Gulf of Bothnia links the Baltic to the White Sea (Beloye More) from between Estonia and Finland.
Obviously, that makes Scandinavia an island and the Baltic far more saline, but probably with a pack-ice 'bridge'. And it's not ASB, because there are several huge lakes (e.g. Ladoga/Ladozhskoye) on that Baltic/White Sea line. Jutland could conceivably have been breached by an outpouring of Ice Age glacial melt. So, an island Denmark.

Anybody care to make this into a TL? I don't have time...
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