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100 unusual facts about Atlantic ocean


2004–05 Columbus Blue Jackets season

While some players joined the Crunch, others crossed the Atlantic and played hockey in Europe.

Abd al-Mu'min

Having put his predecessor's doctrinal blend of Zahirite jurisprudence and Ash'arite dogmatics into practice, Abd al-Mu'min's rule was the first to unite the whole coast from Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean along with Spain under one creed and one government.

Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre

With an area of responsibility spanning almost 1 million square miles, the ARCC deals with incidents across the whole of the UK out to half way across the North Atlantic.

Antonio Baseotto

Besides the usage of scripture (widely acknowledged as inappropriate even by other Catholic bishops), Baseotto was heavily criticized because this "punishment" echoes the infamous vuelos de la muerte ("flights of death") whereby prisoners of the last military regime were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean from planes.

Barbara Pennington

Her single "On a Crowded Street", from the album Out of the Darkest Night, became popular on both sides of the Atlantic in 1985.

Barmet Bay

Barmet Bay (according to The Shore Road Mystery, While the Clock Ticked, and other older titles) is horseshoe-shaped, and stretches about three miles from its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean to its shores along the fictional town of Bayport.

Bathybius haeckelii

In 1868 Huxley studied an old sample of mud from the Atlantic seafloor taken in 1857.

Betic corridor

The Betic Corridor, or North-Betic Strait, was a strait of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean that once separated the Iberian plate from the Eurasian plate through the Betic Cordillera.

Bird colony

For example, there was once a large seabird known as the Great Auk, which nested in colonies in the North Atlantic.

Black grouper

It is associated with rocky or coral reefs, but is not dependent on them; it is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts, USA, in the north to southern Brazil, but is particularly associated with the southern Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

BMT Brighton Line

It was an excursion railroad — the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway — to bring beachgoers from downtown Brooklyn (via a connection with the Long Island Rail Road) to the seashore at Coney Island on the Atlantic Ocean, at a location named Brighton Beach at the same time the railroad arrived.

Bonellia viridis

The species is wide-ranging, found in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the Mediterranean and Red seas.

Boston Harbor

The harbor is sheltered from Massachusetts Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean by a combination of the Winthrop Peninsula and Deer Island to the north, the hooked Nantasket Peninsula and Point Allerton to the south, and the harbor islands in the middle.

Brazil–Nigeria relations

The two nations, one the largest country in Latin America by size, the other the largest country in Africa by population, are remotely bordered across from one another by the Atlantic Ocean.

Brethren of the Coast

The Brethren or Brethren of the Coast were a loose coalition of pirates and privateers commonly known as buccaneers and active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

Brooklyn Community Board

It is delimited by Corbin Place, Coney Island Avenue, Avenue Y, 86th street, Avenue U and MacDonald Avenue, Avenue P and Kings Highway on the north, Nostrand avenue and Marine Park on the east, as well as by the Atlantic Ocean on the south.

Bulletin of the African Bird Club

It contains material concerning the wild birds of continental Africa, Indian Ocean islands west of 80° East, and Atlantic Ocean islands on or east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Buluggin ibn Ziri

Buluggin advanced towards the Atlantic Ocean during a campaign in Morocco, where he also fought against the Bargawata.

Burmeister's porpoise

Its range appears to be continuous in coastal waters from northern Peru in the Pacific round Tierra del Fuego and up to southern Brazil in the Atlantic.

Caliphate

The Fatimid Islamic Caliphate or al-Fāṭimiyyūn (Arabic الفاطميون) was an Isma'ili Shi'a Muslim caliphate that spanned a vast area of the Arab world, from the Red Sea in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west.

Carapax

He used his ship, the Bug, to sink the ship, and when Carapax tried to commandeer the Bug itself, he was sent hurtling into the Atlantic Ocean, where he sank without a trace.

Chapman's Peak

The western flank of the mountain falls sharply for hundreds of metres into the Atlantic Ocean.

Christopher and Cosmas

The two Japanese accompanied him all along, and probably stayed in England for about 3 years, since they are subsequently mentioned during the next mission of Cavendish to the Southern Atlantic, not in Hakluyt's Voyages, but in the writings of Samuel Purchas ("The admirable adventures and strange fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, which went with Master Thomas Candish in his second voyage to the South Sea. 1591").

Clive Scott

The band's merits include the million-selling 1975 hit single "Sky High", reaching top placing on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in Japan.

Club Atlético Ferrocarril General San Martín

Green represented the Argentine Pampas; blue simbolized the Pacific Ocean (which railway connected to the Atlantic crossing Buenos Aires and the Provinces of Cuyo Region.

David Gatten

To produce What the Water Said, Nos.1-3, Gatten placed unexposed rolls of film in crab traps in the Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast.

Demyansky District

The divide between the basins of the Atlantic Ocean (to which the Pola belongs) and the Caspian Sea (to which Lake Seliger belongs) thus runs through the district.

Discards

Canada has also instituted a ban on discarding at sea in its Atlantic groundfish fishery that makes it illegal to return to the water any groundfish except those specifically authorised and those caught in cod traps.

Dunlin

Birds that breed in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic migrate short distances to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, although those nesting in Northern Alaska overwinter in Asia.

Emaar Properties

Offering a mix of residential and commercial zones arranged around a marina, Tinja is located on the Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Eosuchus

The fact that the two species of Eosuchus lived on either side of the Atlantic Ocean implies that these populations may have been separated geographically from one another while not necessarily having to be separated stratigraphically (that is, if the temporal ranges of the two species coincide with one another).

Federal Palace Hotel

The Federal Palace Hotel is a 150-room hotel that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean, located in the commercial hub of Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria.

First Battle of Fort Fisher

The First Battle of Fort Fisher, was a siege fought from December 23–27, 1864, was a failed attempt by Union forces to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina, the South's last major port on the Atlantic Ocean.

Fort Wayne Air National Guard Station

The mission of First Air Force was changed in early 1942 to the defense of the Atlantic Seaboard, and jurisdiction of Baer Field was transferred to III Bomber Command, Third Air Force in March 1942.

Geography of Iceland

: Northern Europe (for cultural and historical reasons it is not considered to be a part of North America), between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the British Isles.

Georg Wüst

Georg Adolf Otto Wüst (June 15, 1890 - November 8, 1977) was a German oceanographer known for his work on the Atlantic Ocean.

Gerard De Geer

The Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904) named a glacier on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean after De Geer.

German Cancer Aid

The public relation of the organization supports the German-Transatlantic cooperation to fight cancer.

Great West Road, Zambia

The long term intention is to then continue the highway into Angola and to connect with its road network as a new trade route for Zambia to Atlantic Ocean ports.

Gryposuchinae

Traditionally, an African origin has been favored because gavialids would have been more likely to cross the Atlantic Ocean than the longer expanses of the Pacific Ocean.

Halodule beaudettei

It forms meadows in shallow sandy or muddy locations along the southern Atlantic coast of the United States, in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the Indian Ocean and on both sides of the South Atlantic Ocean in South America and Africa.

Hofn Air Station

The Greenland, Iceland and United Kingdom air defense sector, better known as the GIUK gap, was routinely utilized by the Soviet Union's long range heavy bombers and maritime reconnaissance platforms as a transit point towards the Atlantic Ocean.

Howard Association

Hampton Roads' plight drew assistance in the form of funds, supplies, and medical personnel from many other cities and communities, especially those located along the Atlantic and Gulf Coast areas of the United States.

Iberian Union

On the other hand, the Iberian Union opened to both countries a worldwide span of control, as Portugal dominated the African and Asian coasts that surrounded the Indian Ocean, and Spain the Pacific Ocean and both sides of Central and South America, while both shared the Atlantic Ocean space.

Incoming

The game is set in six locations: Kenya, defending the ADATA facility; the Arctic, attacking an alien base while defending a human one; the North Atlantic Ocean, where the player must defend oil rigs and attack a second alien base; California, where parts of a fleet to invade the alien's moon base must be defended; the Moon, attacking a further alien base; and a planet in the Crab Nebula, assaulting the planet from which the alien attackers came.

Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands

The Eastern Woodlands extended roughly from the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern Great Plains, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, which is now the eastern United States and Canada.

International School of Dakar

It is situated close to the Atlantic Ocean and includes two separate complexes, one for middle and high school, and the other for the elementary school.

Jeffrey Energy Center

The unit 2 intermediate pressure turbine had to be replaced by the unit 3 turbine when the original unit was lost on a ship that sunk during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.

José Luis Cabezas

On 25 January 1997, Cabezas was murdered at Pinamar, Argentina's most exclusive beach resort on the Atlantic Ocean, visited by politicians, businessmen, actors, sports figures and other celebrities.

Keep Yourself Alive

"Keep Yourself Alive" was largely ignored upon its release and failed to chart on either side of the Atlantic.

Kenneth Martin Willett

Kenneth Martin Willett was an American naval reserve officer who died in during World War II in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Kettle Mucubají

This moraine changed the course of the ravine from Rio Chama to Rio Orinoco and to the Atlantic Ocean.

La Troienne

La Troienne came in time to be described as "the most important producer to be brought across the Atlantic Ocean in this century."

Lateen

The Northern European adoption of the lateen in the Late Middle Ages was a specialized sail that was one of the technological developments in shipbuilding that made ships more maneuverable, thus, in the historian's traditional progression, permitting merchants to sail out of the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic Ocean; caravels typically mounted three or more lateens.

Lesser Black-backed Gull

The Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe.

Maidens, Virginia

The new canal was part of a planned link between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean via the James River and the Kanawha River, which would lead to the Ohio River, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Maritigrella crozierae

Maritigrella crozierae is found in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Michael Klukowski

He began his career in Canada playing for the Oshawa Kicks and Scarborough Azzurri-Blues, before travelling across the Atlantic to link up with Dijon FCO in 1999.

Mike Hentley

Michael Hentley was the administrator for the British overseas territory Tristan da Cunha, which is situated in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Mittelafrika

German strategic thinking was that if the region between the colonies of German East Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania minus the island of Zanzibar), German South-West Africa (Namibia minus Walvis Bay), and Cameroon could be annexed, a contiguous entity could be created covering the breadth of the African continent from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.

Mount Watatic

The east and south side of the mountain drains into the Souhegan River watershed, to the Merrimack River thence the Atlantic Ocean; the west and north sides drain into the Millers River watershed, to the Connecticut River, thence into Long Island Sound.

Natalya Simonova

Natalya breaks into the computer room and resets the satellite's course to cause a burn up over the Atlantic Ocean.

New Hampshire Route 27

The eastern terminus is in Hampton Beach at New Hampshire Route 1A, which runs along the New Hampshire coastline adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.

No. 330 Squadron RNoAF

Its mission was to guard the North Atlantic Ocean and protect convoys from the USA and Canada to Great Britain or Murmansk from attacks by submarines and surface ships from the German Kriegsmarine.

North American blizzard of 1947

With no weather reports generated from stations along its path, the storm was not predicted and it advanced over land from the Atlantic Ocean in a pattern that is the opposite of most snowstorms for the area.

North Atlantic Tracks

North Atlantic Tracks (NAT) are trans-Atlantic routes that stretch from the northeast of North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean.

Norval Jones

Norval Jones (October 10, 1926 – February 12, 2008) was an American WW II Sailor who with 27 other men with the average age of 72 years, made history in the winter of 2000 and 2001 when they sailed a WWII LST across the Atlantic from the island of Crete, Greece to Mobile, Alabama to restore as a living museum.

Operation Matterhorn

That same month, the first Superfortresses arrived in India, having flown across the Atlantic Ocean using the South Atlantic Transport route from Morrision Field, Florida to Natal, Brazil then across to North Africa, then to Arabia, and Persia.

Ophioglossum azoricum

Ophioglossum azoricum is native to islands in the northern Atlantic Ocean and adjacent westernmost Europe from the Azores north to western France, the British Isles, Iceland and Greenland.

Overberg District Municipality

It includes Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point in Africa, and has coastline on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

Pan-Arabism

Pan-Arabism is an ideology espousing the unification of the countries of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea.

Philip M. Morse

Early in 1942 he organized the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group (ASWORG), later ORG, for the U.S. Navy, after the US had entered World War II and was faced with the problem of Nazi German U-boat attacks on transatlantic shipping.

Pliciloricus dubius

Pliciloricus dubius is a species that has been designated for the waters of the Atlantic Ocean north and northwest.

Postage stamps and postal history of Bermuda

Bermuda, a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, was previously uninhabited when the British established a settlement in 1612.

Postage stamps and postal history of Guinea

Guinea forms a crescent by curving from its western border on the Atlantic Ocean toward the east and the south.

Postage stamps and postal history of Mauritania

Mauritania is a country in North Africa bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest.

Renner, South Dakota

After completing the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927, Charles Lindbergh made a stop in Renner on August 27, 1927.

Robert Zarinsky

He also stated to another investigator that he had thrown her body into the Atlantic Ocean.

Salix herbacea

Distributed widely in alpine and arctic environments around the North Atlantic Ocean, it is one of the smallest of woody plants.

San Lorenzo Megaport Project

There it will pick up cargo and continue on the largest river in the world to the Atlantic Ocean.

Scaniornis

Thus, it would seem to have been a native of the prehistoric North Sea, which at that time covered part of today's Germany and France, and sometimes was cut off from the Tethys and Atlantic Oceans, sometimes connected to them, and sometimes even to the Turgai Sea.

Self-proclaimed monarchy

For two years he tried but failed to assert his claim to the small island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

South Salem, Ohio

She apparently had received the letter since she was crossing the Atlantic Ocean at the same time Morter was returning for her.

Sport Club Santa Maria

Its logo represents a shield with a red ling with another line and its abbreviated form on top, it features the Atlantic Ocean on the bottom coloured from sky blue to navy blue with a soccer ball and a boat in the middle overlooking its setting sun which is colored along with the setting evening skies of yellow, light orange, orange and red.

St. James High School

James High School (SJHS) is a public high school located west of Highway 17 on Highway 707 in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina approximately six miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

St. Michael of Scarborough

Michael of Scarborough was a ship of the Atlantic that was set to transport Scottish prisoners to the Thames, so that they could be transported by Ralph Williamson to Plantations of America and was mastered in 1678 by Edward Johnston.

Stéphane Sessègnon

Sessègnon began his career with Benin Premier League side Requins de l'Atlantique, which means the Sharks of the Atlantic, in Cotonou, the largest city in Benin.

Summer Sail

Many of the member ships such as Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild's barkentine Gazela and the privately owned Canadian barque Picton Castle sail all over the Middle Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, giving tours and doing educational outreach whenever they are in port.

The Balloon-Hoax

Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas balloon.

The Book of Negroes

After several horrific months of voyage across the Atlantic Ocean she arrives in South Carolina where she begins a new life as a slave and her name is anglicized to Meena Dee.

Thomas Rundqvist

He played with the club until 1984, when he crossed the Atlantic and signed with the Montreal Canadiens (who had drafted him in 1983 (10th round, 198th pick overall)).

Through Hell and High Water

Five half-hour morning programmes (9.30–10am) on BBC1 followed James Cracknell (Olympic rower) and Ben Fogle (television presenter) in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in "Spirit of EDF Energy", a 24-foot rowing boat, with a half-hour summary programme during the evening of the final day on BBC2.

To Kill the Potemkin

With the ship's zampolit under arrest for negligence and the captain back in command, Potemkin makes a break for the Atlantic Ocean and a rendezvous with Soviet vessels working undercover in Cuba.

Treaty of Versailles

Both the German Empire and Great Britain were dependent on imports of food and raw materials, primarily from the Americas, which had to be shipped across the Atlantic Ocean.

Tuomo Ruutu

He crossed the Atlantic in 2003, playing a full 82 games with the Blackhawks in the 2003–04 NHL season.

Victor Henningsen

He served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean war zones as a midshipman, third and second mate in the merchant navy, finishing as Lt. (JG) in the United States Navy Reserve.

Virals

The fathers are all employees of the Loggerhead Island Research Institute (LIRI), situated on Loggerhead Island, lying in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of Morris Island.

WNG663

WNG663 (sometimes referred to as Princeton All Hazards) is a NOAA Weather Radio station that serves a part of the South Florida metropolitan area as well as the northern portion of the Florida Keys and can also be heard 35 miles into the Atlantic Ocean.

Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam

That fall, he embarked on another fund-raising trip and decided to resettle in New York to strengthen the American Jewish community there and to continue working for Holocaust survivors from that side of the Atlantic.

Yellow-chinned Spinetail

But apart from that region it occurs in most of South America in the area enclosed by – running counterclockwise – the lower Amazon and the Madeira river, the Andes, the Paraguay and lower Paraná rivers, and the Atlantic Ocean.


55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

Provided weather reconnaissance data for northeast Pacific Ocean, parts of Arctic Ocean, and northwestern Atlantic Ocean in late 1950s.

African Renaissance Monument

Built overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the Ouakam suburb, the statue was designed by the Senegalese architect Pierre Goudiaby after an idea presented by president Abdoulaye Wade and built by Mansudae Overseas Projects, a company from North Korea.

Bahía Blanca Partido

The provincial subdivision holds a population of 284,776 inhabitants in an area of 2,300 km² (888 sq mi), and its capital city is Bahía Blanca, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Crossing the River

Geographically, the river refers to the Atlantic Ocean, the main body of water that Africans had to cross when traveling to America.

Dwarf wrasse

The dwarf wrasse, Doratonotus megalepis, is a species of wrasse native to tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida, USA, to Brazil and in the eastern Atlantic from around Ile Las Rolas, São Tomé.

F.P.1

Written after Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, the plot concerned a permanent air station in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Firth of Clyde

The Firth of Clyde encloses the largest and deepest coastal waters in the British Isles, sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire, Scotland.

Flag of Saint Lucia

The triangles represent the island’s famous twin Pitons at Soufrière, the Cerulean Blue represents the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the gold represents the prevailing sunshine in the Caribbean and the black and white stand for the cultural influences of the nation.

Florida East Coast League

The Florida East Coast League was the name of two American minor league baseball circuits, based on the Atlantic coast of Florida.

George Karsten

Das Phytoplankton des Atlantischen Ozeans nach dem Material der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 1898-1899 (Phytoplankton of the Atlantic Ocean from the German Deep-sea Valdivia Expedition); (1906).

Hermann Oelrichs

Hermann Oelrichs (June 8, 1850, Baltimore, Maryland – September 1, 1906, aboard SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Atlantic Ocean), was an American businessman, multimillionaire, and agent of Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping.

Ibn Farrukh

He sailed from Kadesh in February 999 CE into the Atlantic, landed in Gando (Gran Canaria) visiting King Guanariga, and continued westward where he saw and named two islands, Capraria and Pluitana.

Igaraçu River

It flows from its origin on the Parnaiba River southwest of the city of Parnaíba to the mouth on the Atlantic Ocean near the city of Luís Correia.

Isla de los Estados

The island is the location of one of the more southerly Atlantic breeding colonies of the Magellanic Penguin.

Nikolai Baturin

After attending a high school, military service took him for five years to the Caspian oil-fields and the Atlantic Ocean; for fifteen years he was a hunter in the Siberian taiga.

Norath

About 1000 BC, it seems that the Celts, coming from the east, crossed the Rhine and settled the lands between that river on the one side and the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees on the other.

Oceanus

Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks.

Outer barrier

The Ocean Parkway connects all three causeways and runs the length of the island, while The Fire Island Inlet Bridge continues on the Robert Moses Causeway finding its way to the New York's Fire Island on the Atlantic Ocean.

Parnaíba River

The Parnaíba River rises in the Chapada das Mangabeiras range, and flows northeastward for 1,056 miles (1,700 kilometers) to empty into the Atlantic Ocean, being the longest river entirely located within Brazil's Northeast Region.

Porto Cais

The Atlantic Ocean is to the north and Ponto Cais, a point is to the north making it the island's northernmost point, a small islet named the Ilhéu Laja Branca lies to the northeast at about 500 m offshore.

Postage stamps and postal history of Spain

Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.

Salix herbacea

herbacea is adapted to survive in harsh environments, and has a wide distribution on both sides of the North Atlantic, in arctic northwest Asia, northern Europe, Greenland, and eastern Canada, and further south on high mountains, south to the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Rila in Europe, and the northern Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.

Seven Waves Away

The luxury liner SS Crescent Star sinks in seven minutes after striking a rogue mine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with her nearly all of the 1156 people on board.

Shadow Divers

In 1991, a group of divers, including Richie Kohler and John Chatterton, set out on Seeker to explore an unknown object lying 230 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and discover an apparent historical impossibility: a World War II German U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey.

Stasys Girėnas

After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 37 hours and 11 minutes, their plane crashed on July 17, 0:36 AM (Berlin Time) by the village of Kuhdamm, near Soldin, Germany (now Pszczelnik, Myślibórz County, Poland).

Stigmaphyllon

One species (S. bannisterioides) is also found in seashore vegetation along the Atlantic Coast from southern Mexico to northern Brazil, in the West Indies, and along the coast of western Africa (Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone).

Swan Hunter

Based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century — most famously, the RMS Mauretania which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and the RMS Carpathia which rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic.

The Stone Raft

The basic premise of the novel is that the Iberian Peninsula has broken off the European continent and is floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean; bureaucrats around the world are forced to deal with the traumatic effects, while five characters from across Portugal and Spain are drawn ever closer to one another, embarking on a journey within the peninsula as the landmass journeys itself.

Thermohaline circulation

Wind-driven surface currents (such as the Gulf Stream) travel polewards from the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, cooling en route, and eventually sinking at high latitudes (forming North Atlantic Deep Water).