Atlantic Ocean Definition in Geography

Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east

battle of Trafalgar, Trafalgar - a naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain; the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (who was mortally wounded)

Bermuda, Bermudas - a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort

Bermuda Triangle - an area in the western Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes are supposed to have been mysteriously lost

Cape Verde Islands - a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal

Falkland Islands - a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony

the Indies, West Indies - the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area

Greenland, Gronland, Kalaallit Nunaat - the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark

British Isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic

Iceland - a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle

Orkney Islands - an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland

Shetland, Shetland Islands, Zetland - an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland

Tenerife - a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands

Bay of Biscay - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain

Bay of Fundy - a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet

Biscayne Bay - a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida

Bristol Channel - an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England

Buzzards Bay - an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts

Chesapeake Bay - a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River

Delaware Bay - an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River

English Channel - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain

Galway Bay - a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland

Gulf of Guinea - a gulf off the southwest coast of Africa

Labrador Sea - an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland

Massachusetts Bay - an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south

Mid-Atlantic Ridge - a very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic

New York Bay - a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River

North Atlantic - that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator

North Sea - an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970

Norwegian Sea - the part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea

Penobscot Bay - an inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine

Sargasso Sea - a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed

South Atlantic - that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the south of the equator

Windward Passage - a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea

Atlantic Ocean Definition in Geography

Source: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Atlantic+Ocean

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