The Atlantic Ocean is a body of salt water that covers roughly one-fifth of the Earth’s surface and separates the continents of Europe and Africa to the east and North and South America to the west. The ocean’s name is derived from Greek mythology and means “Sea of Atlas.”. It is second only to the Pacific Ocean in size. It is the second-largest ocean, covering an area of 106,460,000sq.km.
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- The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five ocean basins (after the Pacific Ocean, but larger than the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic...
- For complete lists of marginal seas and borders of the Atlantic, see List of seas § Atlantic Ocean, and Borders of the oceans § Atlantic Ocean.
- With a surface area of over 106.4 million km, The Atlantic Ocean is the world’s second-largest ocean by volume.
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- From the largest whales to the smallest plankton, every creature in the Atlantic has a role to play in the intricate web of life that spans the ocean.
- The Atlantic Ocean is a huge mass of water covering about 16.7 percent of the Earth and a total area of approximately 85,133,000 square kilometers.
- Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering about one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of...
- It is the second-largest ocean in the world. The Atlantic Ocean covers over 20% of the earth’s surface. The Atlantic ocean is S-shaped and narrow in length.
- Christopher Columbus was among the first explorers to cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach the New World that is now the Americas.
- As a unit of analysis, the Atlantic Ocean transcends the geographic space of those regions literally touched by the sea itself.
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- Yüzölçümü:91.660.000 km²
- En derin noktası:8.742 m
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