Quote Originally Posted by Bootsiuv
Good points, Landwalker.

Surely, though, the romans were aware of these areas....Gaul and Denmark are not that far apart, nor is Britian for that matter. All that it would take would be a usual channel storm to blow a ship off course a'la the spanish armada....

That being said, no factual evidence does make my argument somewhat moot.
They very well could have been, but like I said, being aware of a region is quite different from having familiar knowledge of it. In fact, we already know they were aware of the regions, thanks to the sketchy extant evidence. But it's the sketchiness that makes that knowledge stop at awareness rather than continue into familiarity. If anybody ever uncovers a manuscript from the Roman republican or imperial period that does provide detailed knowledge of Baltic geography, you can bet every classicist in the world will do a backflip at the excitement of it all.

Cheers.