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| <i>Eh? How can you say this? It hasn't been ten years yet since the ship sank.</i> | |||
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The Republic of Estonia is a country in Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia.
Official name: Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik)
Capital: Tallinn
Official language: Estonian
Area: 45 227 km²
Population: 1 445 580 (1999 est.)
Currency: Eesti Kroon (EEK). 1 kroon = 100 sent. Pegged to the German Mark at rate 1 DEM = 8 EEK
From the CIA World Factbook 2000. Not Wikified.
The Estonia was a passenger ship. In September 28 1994 it sank during a storm in the Baltic sea, killing 852 passengers and crew. The investigation of the accident came to the conclusion that a combination of bad seamanship, technical deficiencies and foul weather caused the disaster.
The shipwreck caused a collective trauma within Swedish society, the repercussions reaching at least to 2001, as speculation and diving at the wreck continues.
Numerous conspiracy theories have been spawned around the sinking of the Estonia.