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It was adopted in France before being common in English-speaking countries. In 1957, Édouard Le Danois wrote, "the name Celtic Sea is hardly known even to oceanographers." Marine biologists and oceanographers adopted it, and later, by petroleum exploration firms. It is named in a 1963 British atlas, but a 1972 article states, "what British maps call the Western Approaches, and what the oil industry calls the Celtic Sea [...] certainly the residents on

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