Atlantic Ocean meaning
ENWAtlantic Ocean
- The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceanic divisions, following the Pacific Ocean.
- The oldest known mention of "Atlantic" is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC (Hdt. 1.202.4): Atlantis thalassa (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς θάλασσα; English: Sea of Atlas).
- The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Eurasia and Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west.
- ^ "The New Encyclopædia Britannica", Volume 2, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1974. p. 294
- Proper nounSUF-ean
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