A Commonplace Book

Category: Atlantic Ocean...

  • be part of a crew on a sailboat crossing the Atlantic
  • Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. (HL Mencken)
  • the Titanic, 2 1/2 miles below the surface of the North Atlantic
  • the ocean's name is derived from Greek mythology Sea of Atlas and it covers about one-fifth of the Earth's surface
  • Iceland, the Azores, Ascension, and Saint Helena are volcanic islands rising from the mid-Atlantic Ridge
  • the Caribbean Islands and South Sandwich Islands forming great unstable island arcs where the greatest depths of the Atlantic are found
  • the Mediterranean communicating with the Atlantic Ocean only through the Strait of Gibraltar
  • the youngest of the oceans, its origin and development accounted for by continental drift and plate tectonics
  • the surface waters of the North Atlantic having a higher salinity than that of any other ocean
  • the ocean grows wider at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year
  • the second largest ocean covers one-fifth of the Earth's surface; Iceland and Greenland are the largest islands

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