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The company was established by Torstein Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia as Viking River Cruises in 1997. Hagen had become involved in cruising as a McKinsey and Company consultant who helped the Holland America Line survive the 1973 oil crisis, then was CEO of the Royal Viking Line from 1980 to 1984, made money in the Russian private equity markets, then bought a controlling stake in a Dutch ...
ENI 07000661. originally, the Schwabenland, formerly Ursula, rebuilt into a river cruise ship in 1963. Rhone Princess. 2001. 110.0 m (361 ft) 120. CroisiEurope. Strasbourg.
Basel (/ ˈbɑːzəl / BAH-zəl; German: [ˈbaːzl̩] ⓘ), also known as Basle, [ note 1 ] is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the River Rhine (at the transition from the High to the Upper Rhine). [ 4 ] Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits ...
The Rhine in Basel is Switzerland's gateway to the sea. View of the Mainz Basin downstreams of Mainz, from Eltville and Erbach to Bingen. In the center of Basel, the first major city in the course of the stream, is the Rhine knee, a major bend, where the overall direction of the Rhine changes from west to north. Here the High Rhine ends.
Swiss rivers belong to five drainage basins, i.e. of the Rhine, the Rhône, the Po, the Danube or the Adige. Of these, only the Rhine and Rhône flow through Switzerland (and also originate there). The waters therefore drain into either the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea or the Black Sea. Below, rivers are grouped by length, drainage area ...
Basel-Stadt is one of the northernmost and lowest cantons of Switzerland, and the smallest by area. The canton lies on both sides of the Rhine and is very densely populated. The largest municipality is Basel, followed by Riehen and Bettingen. The only canton sharing borders with Basel-Stadt is Basel-Landschaft to the south.
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