The Atlantic Ocean is Earth's second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface. The ocean's name, derived from Greek mythology, means the "Sea of Atlas". This ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending in a north-south direction and is divided into the North Atlantic and South Atlantic by equatorial counter currents at about 8° north latitude. Bounded by the Americas on the west and Europe and Africa on the east, the Atlantic is linked to the Pacific Ocean by the Arctic Ocean on the north and th ...

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The surface is usually covered with sea ice in the Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, and Baltic Sea from October to June. There is a clockwise warm-water gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the northern Atlantic, and a counter-clockwise warm-water gyre in the southern Atlantic. The ocean floor is dominated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a rugged north-south centerline for the entire Atlantic basin, first discovered by the Challenger Expedition. Atlantic Ocean - Elevation extremes. lowest point: Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench -8,605 metres (28,232 ft; 5.3 mi) hi ...

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List of seaports - Adriatic Sea. Ancona, Italy Bar, Serbia and Montenegro Bari, Italy Koper, Slovenia Ploče, Croatia Rijeka, Croatia Split, Croatia Trieste, Italy Venice, Italy List of seaports - Aegean Sea. Piraeus, Greece Eleusis, Greece Thessaloniki, Greece Izmir, Turkey Heraklion, Greece Volos, Greece Chalcis, Greece Lavr ...

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List of rivers of Europe - On Iceland. Jökulsá á Fjöllum (north coast) Þjórsá (south coast) List of rivers of Europe - Norwegian coast. In Norway: Altaelva (in Alta in western Finnmark) Reisaelva (in Nordreisa) Målselva (into Malangen in Målselv) Ranelva (in Rana) Vefsna (in Mosjøen) Namsen (in Namsos) Nidelva (in Trondheim) Orkla river (into Trondheimsfjord at Orkdal) Rauma (in Åndalsnes ...

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The principal feature of the bottom topography of the Atlantic Ocean is a great submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It extends from Iceland in the north to approximately 58° south latitude, reaching a maximum width of about 1,600 km (1,000 miles). A great rift valley also extends along the ridge over most of its length. The depth of water over the ridge is less than 2,700 m (8,900 ft) in most places, and several mountain peaks rise above the water, forming islands. The South Atlantic Ocean has a ...

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The principal feature of the bottom topography of the Atlantic Ocean is a great submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It extends from Iceland in the north to approximately 58° south latitude, reaching a maximum width of about 1,600 kilometres (1,000 mi). A great rift valley also extends along the ridge over most of its length. The depth of water over the ridge is less than 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) in most places, and several mountain peaks rise above the water, forming islands. The South Atlantic Ocean has a ...

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An ocean current is any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans. Ocean current - Description. Ocean currents can flow for thousands of kilometers. They are very important in determining the climates of the continents, especially those regions bordering on the ocean. Perhaps the most striking example is the Gulf Stream, which makes northwest Europe much more temperate than any other region at the same latitude. Another example is the Hawa ...

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A sea is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. The Sea of Galilee is a small freshwater lake with a natural outlet, but the term was applied to it anyway. The term is used colloquially as synonymous with ocean, as in the tropical sea or down to the sea shore, or even sea water referring to water of the ocean. Large lakes are sometimes referred t ...

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Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the Salmonidae family. Several other fishes in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Great Lakes and other land locked lakes. The Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Russian Far East, contains the world's greatest salmon sanctuary. Salmon are anadromous: they are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce. Folklore has it that the fish return to the exact spot where they were born t ...

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle", was a pioneering United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Charles Lindbergh - Early life. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Swedish immigrants. He grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. His father, Charles August Lindbergh, was a lawyer and later a U.S. congressman who opposed the entry of the U.S. into World War I; ...

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The 2005-06 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season runs from late October and ends in May; reaching its peak mid-February to early March. The scope of this article is limited to the Southern Hemisphere. Three major basins are located in the southern hemisphere (Southwest Indian Ocean, Australian Region, South Pacific Ocean). South Atlantic tropical cyclones rarely develop due to cooler waters, the lack of an ITCZ, and wind shear. Southern Hemisphere adopted a naming system slightly different from the Atlantic one and is explain ...

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The first ocean to be rowed was the Atlantic which was rowed by George Harbo and Gabriel Samuelsen, both of Norway, in June 1896. The pair left Battery Park, Manhattan on 6 June 1896 arriving in Le Havre, France 55 days and 13 hours later having covered 3,250 miles. The pair also stopped on the Isles of Scilly during their journey. The first solo crossing of any ocean was completed by John Fairfax of Britain on 19 July 1969. He rowed from Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands to Hollywood beach Florida in 180 days. In the same year Tom M ...

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Surface ocean currents are generally wind driven and develop their typical clockwise spirals in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise rotation in the southern hemisphere due to the imposed wind stresses. In wind driven currents the Ekman spiral effect results in the currents flowing at an angle to the driving winds. The areas of surface ocean currents move somewhat with the seasons, this is most notable in equatorial currents. Deep ocean currents are driven by density and temperature gradients. Thermohaline circulation, also k ...

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One of the most important influences on the British climate is the Atlantic Ocean and especially the North Atlantic current which brings warm waters from the Gulf of Mexico to the United Kingdom by means of the global conveyor. This has a powerful moderating and warming effect on the UK climate. The North Atlantic Drift warms the climate of the UK to such a great extent that temperatures in winter would be about 10 °C lower than they are today if it didn't exist and ...

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Lindbergh gained sudden great international fame as the first pilot to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean, flying from Roosevelt Airfield (Nassau County, Long Island), New York to Paris on May 20-May 21, 1927 in his single-engine airplane The Spirit of St. Louis which had been designed by Donald Hall and custom built by Ryan Airlines of San Diego, California. He needed 33.5 hours for the trip. (His grandson Erik Lindbergh repeated this trip 75 years later in 2002.) The President of France bestowed on him the French Legion ...

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Surface ocean currents are generally wind driven and develop their typical clockwise spirals in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise rotation in the southern hemisphere due to the coriolis effect. In wind driven currents the Ekman spiral effect results in the currents flowing at an angle to the driving winds. The areas of surface ocean currents move somewhat due seasons, this is most notable in equatorial currents. Deep ocean currents are driven by density and temperature gradients. Thermohaline circulation, als ...

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Ocean current - Arctic Ocean. East Greenland Current Norwegian Current Ocean current - Atlantic Ocean. Angola Current Antilles Current Benguela current Brazil Current Canary Current Cape Horn Current Caribbean Current East Greenland Current Falkland Current Gulf Stream Guinea Current Labrador Current North Atlantic Current North Brazil ...

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Ocean current - Arctic Ocean. East Greenland Current Norwegian Current Ocean current - Atlantic Ocean. Angola Current Antilles Current Benguela current Brazil Current Canary Current Cape Horn Current Caribbean Current East Greenland Current Falkland Current Gulf Stream Guinea Current Labrador Current North Atlantic Current North Brazil ...

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