The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 km2 (32,870,000 sq mi). It covers approximately...
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This is a list of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the largest of which is Greenland. Note that the definition of the ocean used by the International Hydrographic...
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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge (a divergent or constructive plate boundary) located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the...
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The Atlantic Ocean Road or the Atlantic Road (Norwegian: Atlanterhavsvegen / Atlanterhavsveien) is an 8.3-kilometer (5.2 mi) long section of County Road...
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the five oceans are the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern (Antarctic) Ocean, and Arctic Ocean. Smaller regions of the oceans are called...
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into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. The following names describe five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern...
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Thermohaline circulation (redirect from Ocean conveyer belt)
polewards from the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, cooling en route, and eventually sinking at high latitudes (forming North Atlantic Deep Water). This dense water...
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which occurred in the Atlantic Ocean. The list includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost. The Atlantic Ocean is here defined in...
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currents in the Atlantic Ocean Azores Current – Ocean current in the North Atlantic Ocean Benguela Current – Ocean current in the South Atlantic Brazil Current –...
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North Atlantic Pacific hurricane Pacific typhoon season South Atlantic tropical cyclone South Pacific tropical cyclone South-West Indian Ocean tropical...
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North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic gyre In oceanography...
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South Atlantic basins; hence the origin of the name 'mid-ocean ridge'. Most oceanic spreading centers are not in the middle of their hosting ocean basis...
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Tropical cyclone naming (redirect from Atlantic hurricane naming lists)
Western and Southern Pacific basins, and the Australian region, Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean. Before the formal start of naming, tropical cyclones were...
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The Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) is a species of marlin endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. It is closely related to, and usually considered conspecific...
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The Atlantic Ocean Tunnel (Norwegian: Atlanterhavstunnelen) is an undersea tunnel that is part of Norwegian County Road 64 which connects Kristiansund...
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rows are described as modern-day rows. The first ocean to be deliberately rowed across was the Atlantic by Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo, two Norwegian-born...
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Pangaea Proxima (redirect from Indo-Atlantic Ocean)
western Atlantic, east of the Americas, leads to the subduction of the Atlantic mid-ocean ridge followed by subduction destroying the Atlantic and Indian...
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in-part from the remnants of Atlantic basin Tropical Storm Nadine, and intensified to Category 5 strength out in the open ocean.A few days later, Tropical...
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Wilson Cycle (section Atlantic Ocean Example)
classic example of the Wilson Cycle is the opening and closing of the Atlantic Ocean. It has been suggested that Wilson cycles on Earth started about 3 Ga...
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Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending...
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This is a list of notable crossings or attempted crossings of the Atlantic Ocean. For the purposes of this list, a transatlantic voyage goes between the...
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The ocean coasts are demarcated as follows: Arctic Ocean coast (including Hudson Bay) from Cape Prince of Wales east to Cape Chidley Atlantic Ocean coast...
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An Atlantic hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic Ocean primarily between June and November. The terms "hurricane", "typhoon"...
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principal oceanic divisions, smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, and larger than the Arctic Ocean. The maximum depth of the Southern Ocean, using...
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Iapetus Ocean was positioned between continental masses that would at a much later time roughly form the opposite shores of the Atlantic Ocean, it can...
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List of seas on Earth (section Atlantic Ocean)
which is defined only by ocean currents: Sargasso Sea – a sea defined by the four ocean currents which create the North Atlantic Gyre Entities called "seas"...
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Transatlantic crossing (redirect from Crossing of the Atlantic Ocean)
cargo across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe or Africa and the Americas. The majority of passenger traffic is across the North Atlantic between Western...
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Tropical cyclone basins (redirect from North Indian Ocean cyclone)
seven basins. These include the north Atlantic Ocean, the eastern and western parts of the northern Pacific Ocean, the southwestern Pacific, the southwestern...
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Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean.: 2238 It is a component of Earth's ocean circulation...
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Islands of Africa (section Atlantic Ocean islands)
subdivided into Indian Ocean Islands and Atlantic Ocean Islands. The largest number of islands of Africa are found in the Indian Ocean, with the sovereign...
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