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    The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about 85,133,000 km2 (32,870,000 sq mi). It covers approximately...
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  • Thumbnail for List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
    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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  • Thumbnail for Thermohaline circulation
    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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  • Thumbnail for Borders of the oceans
    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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    which the world ocean is conventionally divided. Distinct names are used to identify five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern...
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    Spitsbergen Currents of the Atlantic Ocean Angola Current – Temporary ocean surface current Antilles Current – Ocean current Atlantic meridional overturning...
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  • list of states and territories (in italics) with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean (including the Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas).  Cyprus  Georgia...
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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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  • Indian ocean, Cyclone Djoungou is the strongest system this month. Cyclone Eleanor affected sparsely over the Mascarene Islands. In the South Atlantic, Tropical...
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  • Thumbnail for Mid-ocean ridge
    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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    the three subsections below, the Arctic Ocean itself is sometimes also considered a marginal sea of the Atlantic. Norwegian Sea North Sea Kattegat Skagerrak...
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  • Thumbnail for Pangaea Proxima
    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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  • Thumbnail for Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
    The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the "main current system in the South and North Atlantic Oceans".: 2238  As such, it is a component...
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  • Thumbnail for Atlantic blue marlin
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for List of crossings of the Atlantic Ocean
    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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  • Thumbnail for List of the most intense tropical cyclones
    North Atlantic Pacific hurricane Pacific typhoon season South Atlantic tropical cyclone South Pacific tropical cyclone South-West Indian Ocean tropical...
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  • Thumbnail for Ocean rowing
    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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  • Thumbnail for Tropical cyclone naming
    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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    principal oceanic divisions: smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans but larger than the Arctic Ocean. The maximum depth of the Southern Ocean, using...
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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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for East Coast of the United States
    the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean. The...
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  • Thumbnail for North Atlantic garbage patch
    and clean-up efforts for the North Atlantic garbage patch, such as The Garbage Patch State at UNESCO and The Ocean Cleanup, as most of the research and...
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  • Thumbnail for Pacific Ocean
    Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or,...
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    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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  • each year when most subtropical or tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the Atlantic Ocean (over 97%). The National Hurricane Center (NHC) will begin issuing regular...
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  • Thumbnail for List of rivers of the Americas by coastline
    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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