The Faroe Islands-Shetland Canal is a moat in the European North Sea between Shetland and the Faroe Islands.
The trench is up to 1500 meters deep, but separates the Wyoming-Thomson-Ridge from the Rockall-Trough in the open Atlantic rising to 620 meters. Through the ditch, which is 25 kilometers wide at its narrowest point, most of the warm and salty North Atlantic current flows into the European North Sea and reaches the Greenland Sea further. Two cubic miles of warm water per hour flow into the North Sea, although depending on the season and year, there may be considerable differences. Reduced entries can be found in the next harvest in Norway, as well as ice formation in the Barents Sea correlated directly with the flow at the Shetland-Faroe Islands canal two to three years later.
Likewise, a small part of the cold deep water flows back into the Atlantic through the Faroe Islands-Shetland Channel, but the deep Faroe Islands and Denmark Strait play a greater role. The Shetland-Faroe Islands channel contributes just as much to the comparatively warm climate of Northern Europe as to the thermohaline circulation. Edit the source text
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