Atlantic Ocean
Body of Water
Pair get ready to row across the Atlantic OceanHALLUCINATIONS, sleep deprivation and blisters are all in store for a rowing duo preparing to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Nick Jackson, 33, of Cardiff Bay, and his rowing partner Jonnie Miller, 24, will today head off to the Spanish island... In this article: Atlantic Ocean, La Gomera, Cardiff, Plymouth, and Antigua |
-
NBC | 19 hours ago
Wind: Eye-Catching Alternative Energy on Atlantic Blvd
...Lindgren Dave Wax Ann Butler Created: 11/20/2009 5:20:30 PM Updated: 11/20/2009 6:28:42 PM JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- If you've driven down Atlantic Boulevard in the past month, you may have noticed three spinning towers near the intersection of...
In this article: Florida, Jacksonville, Mariah Power, Atlantic, and Michigan
-
washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
Sea & sky while cruising the Atlantic
...experienced shipboard which, surprisingly so at first, were generated by an intensifying storm almost a 1500 miles away over the north Atlantic. I had not thought much about the ship's rolling as moderate 5-10 foot waves were strike the ship...
In this article: Holland America Line, Oosterdam, Sea, Lisbon, Portugal, Fort Lauderdale, and Florida
-
BBC News | 3 days ago
Seahorse 'hitchhikes' Atlantic
...with only small fins and a tail for locomotion it seems an impossible task. However, a seahorse that lives on the western coast of the Atlantic has been found in the Azores almost 5000km away from its possible home. Researchers suggest...
In this article: Atlantic, Azores, Royal Holloway, University of London, Europe, UK, Caribbean Sea, and South America
-
L.A. Times - L.A. Unleashed | 3 days ago
Deal to limit Atlantic bluefin tuna catches not good enough, say environmentalists
BRUSSELS - Environmentalists on Monday said an international deal to reduce catches of Atlantic bluefin tuna didn't go far enough to protect the species from extinction. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas...
In this article: Atlantic, European Union, International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, Los Angeles Times, Joe Borg, Brazil, and Raul Romeva
-
washingtonpost.com | 4 days ago
Passenger removed from trans-Atlantic flight
...spokesman, says the flight originated in Philadelphia and the pilot decided to divert it and have Murray removed before beginning the Atlantic crossing "in the interest of safety." Neither Lehmacher nor Orlandella could say what kind of...
In this article: Atlantic, Boston, London, Philadelphia, and Logan International Airport
-
AP Online | 4 days ago
Passenger removed from trans-Atlantic flight
In this article: Atlantic, Boston, Philadelphia, and London
-
Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | 4 days ago
Environmentalists call for global ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna trade
...tuna Photo: AFP The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) reduced the 2010 quota for eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna to 13,500 tonnes - a cut from 22,000 tonnes in 2009. The 30 per cent cut in quotas,...
In this article: Atlantic, WWF, International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and Endangered species
-
Reuters | 5 days ago
Fishing body agrees to cut in Atlantic tuna quota
By Douglas Engle Fishing nations agreed on Sunday to cut by about a third the quota for Atlantic bluefin tuna, a giant fish prized by sushi lovers, numbers of which have been decimated by commercial catches. The move was denounced as...
In this article: Atlantic, Endangered species, Asia, Extinction, Cites, International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, European Union, and Greenpeace
-
Atlantic coast drenched from Ida remnants
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A drenching, wind-driven rain lashed much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, flooding streets, closing schools, roads and bridges and causing at least five deaths. The torrential rains and winds gusting more than 30 mph...
In this article: Virginia, North Carolina, Atlantic coast, Timothy Kaine, Chattahoochee River, Atlanta, New Jersey, and Dominion Power
-
A call for Atlantic 11 voters
Trends
Loading...
More on Atlantic Ocean
Description from Wikipedia:
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres (41.1 million square miles). It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface. The first part of its name refers to the Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the "Sea of Atlas". The oldest known mention of this name is contained in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC (I 202); see also: Atlas Mountains. Another name historically used was the ancient term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, whose name was sometimes used as a synonym for all of Africa and thus for the ocean. Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term "ocean" itself was to them synonymous with the waters beyond Western Europe that we now know as the Atlantic and which the Greeks had believed to be a gigantic river encircling the world; see Oceanus.
The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending
longitudinally between the Americas to the west, and Eurasia and Africa to the east. A component of the all-encompassing World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean (which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south. (Alternatively, in lieu of it connecting to the Southern Ocean, the Atlantic may be reckoned to extend southward to Antarctica.) The equator subdivides it into the North Atlantic Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean but for physical purposes the division is rotated slightly counter-clockwise to a line roughly from the Bolama region, Guinea-Bissau to Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil to include the Gulf of Guinea with the South Atlantic and the north coast of South America with the North Atlantic.
Explore everything named Atlantic Ocean...
