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402 relations: Absolute monarchy, Abyssal plain, Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Aethiopia, Aethiopian Sea, Africa, African Plate, Afro-Eurasia, Age of Discovery, Agulhas Bank, Agulhas Current, Albatross, Alexandre Exquemelin, American Civil War, American eel, American plaice, Americas, Ancient Greece, Antarctic, Antarctic bottom water, Antarctic ice sheet, Antarctic Intermediate Water, Antarctica, Aquatic sill, Archipelago Sea, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Arctogadus, Argentine Sea, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Asia, Atlantic cod, Atlantic halibut, Atlantic hurricane, Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, Atlantic Revolutions, Atlantic slave trade, Atlas, Atlas (mythology), Atlas Mountains, Auk, Autosome, Azores, Azores Triple Junction, Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault, Þingvellir, Baffin Bay, Bahama Banks, Balearic Sea, ... Expand index (352 more) »
- Landforms of the Atlantic Ocean
- Oceans surrounding Antarctica
Absolute monarchy
Absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign is the sole source of political power, unconstrained by constitutions, legislatures or other checks on their authority.
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Abyssal plain
An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between.
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Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.
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Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.
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Aethiopia
Ancient Aethiopia, (Aithiopía; Aethiopia and also Ethiopia) first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the upper Nile region of Sudan, areas south of the Sahara, and certain areas in Asia.
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Aethiopian Sea
Aethiopian, Æthiopian, Æthiopic or Ethiopian Sea or Ocean (Æthiopicum Mare or Oceanus Æthiopicus; البحر الأثيوبي) was the name given to the southern half of the Atlantic Ocean in classical geographical works. Atlantic Ocean and Aethiopian Sea are history of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
African Plate
The African Plate, also known as the Nubian Plate, is a major tectonic plate that includes much of the continent of Africa (except for its easternmost part) and the adjacent oceanic crust to the west and south.
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Afro-Eurasia
Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia and Eurafrasia) is a landmass comprising the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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Age of Discovery
The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail.
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Agulhas Bank
The Agulhas Bank (from Portuguese for Cape Agulhas, Cabo das Agulhas, "Cape of Needles") is a broad, shallow part of the southern African continental shelf which extends up to south of Cape Agulhas before falling steeply to the abyssal plain.
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Agulhas Current
The Agulhas Current is the western boundary current of the southwest Indian Ocean.
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Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).
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Alexandre Exquemelin
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645–1707) was a French, Dutch, or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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American eel
The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America.
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American plaice
The American plaice, American sole or long rough dab (Hippoglossoides platessoides) is a North Atlantic flatfish that belongs, along with other right-eyed flounders, to the family Pleuronectidae.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Antarctic
The Antarctic (or, American English also or; commonly) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.
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Antarctic bottom water
The Antarctic bottom water (AABW) is a type of water mass in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica with temperatures ranging from −0.8 to 2 °C (35 °F) and absolute salinities from 34.6 to 35.0 g/kg.
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Antarctic ice sheet
The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of and an average thickness of over.
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Antarctic Intermediate Water
Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) is a cold, relatively low salinity water mass found mostly at intermediate depths in the Southern Ocean.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
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Aquatic sill
An aquatic sill (or an oceanic sill) is a sea floor barrier of relatively shallow depth (tens to hundreds of meters) that restricts water movement between benthic zones of an oceanic basin or lake bottom.
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Archipelago Sea
The Archipelago Sea (Saaristomeri, Skärgårdshavet) is a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Åland, within Finnish territorial waters.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean are oceans.
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Arctogadus
Arctogadus glacialis, known also with ambiguous common names Arctic cod and polar cod, is an Arctic species of fish in the cod family Gadidae, related to the true cod (genus Gadus).
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Argentine Sea
The Argentine Sea (Mar Argentino) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the southern tip of South America.
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Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
The Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) is an American triservice research laboratory in Bethesda, Maryland chartered by Congress in 1960 and formally established in 1961.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Atlantic cod
The Atlantic cod (cod; Gadus morhua) is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans.
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Atlantic halibut
The Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae.
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Atlantic hurricane
An Atlantic hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic Ocean primarily between June and November.
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Atlantic multidecadal oscillation
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), also known as Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV), is the theorized variability of the sea surface temperature (SST) of the North Atlantic Ocean on the timescale of several decades.
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Atlantic Revolutions
The Atlantic Revolutions (22 March 1765 – 4 December 1838) were numerous revolutions in the Atlantic World in the late 18th and early 19th century. Atlantic Ocean and Atlantic Revolutions are history of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. Atlantic Ocean and Atlantic slave trade are history of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Atlas
An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth.
Atlas (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Atlas (Ἄτλας, Átlās) is a Libyan god and a Titan in Greek mythology condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity in Libya after the Titanomachy.
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Atlas Mountains
The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa.
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Auk
Auks or alcids are a group of birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.
Autosome
An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.
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Azores
The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).
Azores Triple Junction
The Azores Triple Junction (ATJ) is a geologic triple junction where the boundaries of three tectonic plates intersect: the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate.
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Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault
The Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault (AGFZ), also called a fault zone and a fracture zone, is a major seismic zone in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and the Strait of Gibraltar.
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Þingvellir
Þingvellir (anglicised as ThingvellirThe spelling Pingvellir is sometimes seen, although the letter "p" is unrelated to the letter "þ" (thorn), which is pronounced as "th".) was the site of the Alþing, the annual parliament of Iceland from the year 930 until the last session held at italic in 1798.
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Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; Avannaata Imaa; Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
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Bahama Banks
The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama Archipelago.
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Balearic Sea
The Balearic Sea (endotoponym: Mar Balear in Catalan and Spanish) also known as Iberian Sea, is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea between the Balearic Islands and mainland Spain.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
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Barents Sea
The Barents Sea (also; Barentshavet,; Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
Bathymetry
Bathymetry is the study of underwater depth of ocean floors (seabed topography), lake floors, or river floors.
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Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.
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Bay of Campeche
The Bay of Campeche (Bahía de Campeche), or Campeche Sound, is a bight in the southern area of the Gulf of Mexico, forming the north side of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
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Bay of Fundy
The Bay of Fundy (Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine.
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Bear Island (Svalbard)
Bear Island (Bjørnøya) is the southernmost island of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.
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Behavioral modernity
Behavioral modernity is a suite of behavioral and cognitive traits believed to distinguish current Homo sapiens from other anatomically modern humans, hominins, and primates.
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Benguela Current
The Benguela Current is the broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre.
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Benue Trough
The Benue Trough is a major geological structure underlying a large part of Nigeria and extending about 1,000 km northeast from the Bight of Benin to Lake Chad.
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Beringia
Beringia is defined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72° north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
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Blake Plateau
The Blake Plateau lies in the western Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida in the southeastern United States.
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Blombos Cave
Blombos Cave is an archaeological site located in Blombos Private Nature Reserve, about 300 km east of Cape Town on the Southern Cape coastline, South Africa.
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Blue whiting
The blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) one of the two species in the genus Micromesistius in the family Gadidae, which also contains cod, haddock, whiting, and pollock.
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Borders of the oceans
The borders of the oceans are the limits of Earth's oceanic waters. Atlantic Ocean and borders of the oceans are oceans.
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Bothnian Bay
The Bothnian Bay or Bay of Bothnia is the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia, which is in turn the northern part of the Baltic Sea.
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Bothnian Sea
The Bothnian Sea (Bottenhavet; Selkämeri) links the Bothnian Bay (also called the Bay of Bothnia) with the Baltic proper.
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Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island is an uninhabited island and dependency of Norway.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Cape Agulhas
Cape Agulhas (Cabo das Agulhas, "Cape of Needles") is a rocky headland in Western Cape, South Africa.
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Cape Bojador
Cape Bojador (رأس بوجادور, trans. Rā's Būjādūr; ⴱⵓⵊⴷⵓⵔ, Bujdur; Spanish and Cabo Bojador; Cap Boujdour) is a headland on the west coast of Western Sahara, at 26° 07' 37"N, 14° 29' 57"W (various sources give various locations: this is from the Sailing Directions for the region), as well as the name of the large nearby town with a population of 42,651.
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Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.
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Cape Floristic Region
The Cape Floral Region is a floristic region located near the southern tip of South Africa.
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Cape Fold Belt
The Cape Fold Belt is a fold and thrust belt of late Paleozoic age, which affected the sequence of sedimentary rock layers of the Cape Supergroup in the southwestern corner of South Africa.
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Cape Hatteras
Cape Hatteras is a cape located at a pronounced bend in Hatteras Island, one of the barrier islands of North Carolina.
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Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
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Capelin
The capelin or caplin (Mallotus villosus) is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic oceans.
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Carbonate platform
A carbonate platform is a sedimentary body which possesses topographic relief, and is composed of autochthonic calcareous deposits.
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Caribbean Plate
The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe.
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Celtic Sea
The Celtic Sea is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of Ireland bounded to the north by Saint George's Channel; other limits include the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay, as well as adjacent portions of Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany.
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Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
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Central American Seaway
The Central American Seaway (also known as the Panamanic Seaway, Inter-American Seaway and Proto-Caribbean Seaway) was a body of water that once separated North America from South America.
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Central Atlantic magmatic province
The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) is the Earth's largest continental large igneous province, covering an area of roughly 11 million km2.
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Challenger expedition
The Challenger expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific programme that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography.
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Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
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Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone
Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone is a system of two parallel fracture zones.
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Chlorofluorocarbon
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) are fully or partly halogenated hydrocarbons that contain carbon (C), hydrogen (H), chlorine (Cl), and fluorine (F), produced as volatile derivatives of methane, ethane, and propane.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Clovis culture
The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present.
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Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery
In 1992, Northern Cod populations fell to 1% of historical levels, due in large part to decades of overfishing.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Columbian exchange
The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries. Atlantic Ocean and Columbian exchange are history of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Continental shelf
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.
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Convergent boundary
A convergent boundary (also known as a destructive boundary) is an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide.
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Coriolis force
In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial (or fictitious) force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame.
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Cunene horse mackerel
The Cunene horse mackerel (Trachurus trecae) is a species named after mackerel in the family Carangidae.
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Davis Strait
The Davis Strait is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea.
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Dead zone (ecology)
Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.
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Denmark Strait
The Denmark Strait or Greenland Strait ('Greenland Sound') is an oceanic strait between Greenland to its northwest and Iceland to its southeast.
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Dike (geology)
In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.
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Dike swarm
A dike swarm (American spelling) or dyke swarm (British spelling) is a large geological structure consisting of a major group of parallel, linear, or radially oriented magmatic dikes intruded within continental crust or central volcanoes in rift zones.
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Divergent boundary
In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary (also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
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Dogger Bank
Dogger Bank (Dutch: Doggersbank, German: Doggerbank, Danish: Doggerbanke) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about off the east coast of England.
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Doggerland
Doggerland was an area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea.
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Douglas C-124 Globemaster II
The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, nicknamed "Old Shaky", is an American heavy-lift cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California.
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Dover Air Force Base
Dover Air Force Base or Dover AFB is a United States Air Force (USAF) base under the operational control of Air Mobility Command (AMC), located southeast of the city of Dover, Delaware.
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Drake Passage
The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
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Drift netting
Drift netting is a fishing technique where nets, called drift nets, hang vertically in the water column without being anchored to the bottom.
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Early modern human
Early modern human (EMH), or anatomically modern human (AMH), are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens (the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans, from extinct archaic human species.
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Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
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Eastern oyster
The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)—also called the Atlantic oyster, American oyster, or East Coast oyster—is a species of true oyster native to eastern North and South America.
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Eddy (fluid dynamics)
In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime.
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Ekman layer
The Ekman layer is the layer in a fluid where there is a force balance between pressure gradient force, Coriolis force and turbulent drag.
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English Channel
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.
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Enkapune Ya Muto
Enkapune Ya Muto, also known as Twilight Cave, is a site spanning the late Middle Stone Age to the Late Stone Age on the Mau Escarpment of Kenya.
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Eocene–Oligocene extinction event
The Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, also called the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) or Grande Coupure (French for "great cut"), is the transition between the end of the Eocene and the beginning of the Oligocene, an extinction event and faunal turnover occurring between 33.9 and 33.4 million years ago.
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Equator
The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
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Equilibrium level
In meteorology, the equilibrium level (EL), or level of neutral buoyancy (LNB), or limit of convection (LOC), is the height at which a rising parcel of air is at the same temperature as its environment.
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Ertebølle culture
The Ertebølle culture (BCE – 3,950 BCE) is a hunter-gatherer and fisher, pottery-making culture dating to the end of the Mesolithic period.
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Eurasian Basin
The Eurasian Basin, or Eurasia Basin, is one of the two major basins into which the Arctic Basin of the Arctic Ocean is split by the Lomonosov Ridge (other being the Amerasia Basin).
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Eurasian Plate
The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European colonization of the Americas
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century. Atlantic Ocean and European colonization of the Americas are history of the Atlantic Ocean.
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European eel
The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a species of eel.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Exclusive economic zone
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Extinction event
An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth.
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Eyjafjallajökull
Eyjafjallajökull, sometimes referred to by the numeronym E15, is one of the smaller ice caps of Iceland, north of Skógar and west of Mýrdalsjökull.
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Falklands War
The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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Farfantepenaeus aztecus
Farfantepenaeus aztecus is a species of marine penaeid shrimps found around the east coast of the US and Mexico.
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe or Faeroe Islands, or simply the Faroes (Føroyar,; Færøerne), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Felsic
In geology, felsic is a modifier describing igneous rocks that are relatively rich in elements that form feldspar and quartz.
Fernando de Noronha
Fernando de Noronha, officially the State District of Fernando de Noronha (Portuguese: Distrito Estadual de Fernando de Noronha) and formerly known as the Territory of Fernando de Noronha (Portuguese: Território de Fernando de Noronha) until 1988, is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, and located off the Brazilian coast.
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Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.
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Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone
The Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone (or FTFZ, Cabo Verde Fracture Zone, 1520' Fracture Zone, 15°20' Fracture Zone), is a fracture zone located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) in the central Atlantic Ocean between 14 and 16°N.
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Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.
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Francis Windebank
Sir Francis Windebank (1582 – 1 September 1646) was an English politician who was Secretary of State under Charles I.
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French colonial empire
The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
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Gabbro
Gabbro is a phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive igneous rock formed from the slow cooling of magnesium-rich and iron-rich magma into a holocrystalline mass deep beneath the Earth's surface.
Georges Bank
Georges Bank (formerly known as St. Georges Bank) is a large elevated area of the sea floor between Cape Cod, Massachusetts (United States), and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia (Canada). Atlantic Ocean and Georges Bank are landforms of the Atlantic Ocean.
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German Meteor expedition
The German Meteor expedition (German: Deutsche Atlantik Expedition) was an oceanographic expedition that explored the South Atlantic ocean from the equatorial region to Antarctica in 1925–1927.
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Gibraltar Arc
The Gibraltar Arc is a geological region corresponding to an arcuate orogen surrounding the Alboran Sea, between the Iberian Peninsula and Africa.
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Global and Planetary Change
Global and Planetary Change is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research into the earth sciences, particularly pertaining to changes in aspects thereof such as sea level and the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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Gough Island
Gough Island, also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares, is a rugged volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Grand Banks of Newfoundland
The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are a series of underwater plateaus south-east of the island of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf.
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Gravel
Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.
Great American Interchange
The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the formerly separated continents.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Greenland halibut
The Greenland halibut or Greenland turbot (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) belongs to the family Pleuronectidae (the right-eye flounders), and is the only species of the genus Reinhardtius.
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Greenland Sea
The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south.
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Grenadiers (fish)
Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the subfamily Macrourinae, the largest subfamily of the family Macrouridae.
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Grouper
Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.
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Gulf menhaden
The Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) is a small marine filter-feeding fish belonging to the family Alosidae.
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Gulf of Bothnia
The Gulf of Bothnia (Pohjanlahti; Bottniska viken) is divided into the Bothnian Bay and Bothnian Sea, and it is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland's west coast (East Bothnia) and the northern part of Sweden's east coast (West Bothnia and North Bothnia).
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Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.
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Gulf of Lion
The Gulf of Lion or Gulf of Lions is a wide embayment of the Mediterranean coastline of Catalonia in Spain with Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence in France, extending from Begur in the west to Toulon in the east.
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Gulf of Maine
The Gulf of Maine is a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of North America.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
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Gulf of Sidra
The Gulf of Sidra (Khalij as-Sidra, also known as the Gulf of Sirte (Khalij Surt, is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya, named after the oil port of Sidra or the city of Sirte. It was also historically known as the Great Sirte or Greater Syrtis (Syrtis Major; Σύρτις μεγάλη; contrasting with Syrtis Minor on the coast of Tunisia).
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Gulf of St. Lawrence
The Gulf of St.
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Gulf of Venezuela
The Gulf of Venezuela is a gulf of the Caribbean Sea bounded by the Venezuelan states of Zulia and Falcón and by La Guajira Department, Colombia.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
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Guyot
In marine geology, a guyot, also called a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain (seamount) with a flat top more than below the surface of the sea.
Haddock
The haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a saltwater ray-finned fish from the family Gadidae, the true cods.
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Hake
Hake is the common name for fish in the Merlucciidae family of the northern and southern oceans and the Phycidae family of the northern oceans.
Haliotis midae
Haliotis midae, known commonly as the South African abalone or the, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.
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Henry Mainwaring
Sir Henry Mainwaring (1587–1653), was an English lawyer, soldier, writer, seaman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.
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Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
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Herring
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.
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Histories (Herodotus)
The Histories (Ἱστορίαι, Historíai; also known as The History) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature.
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Horse mackerel
Horse mackerel is a vague vernacular term for a range of species of fish throughout the English-speaking world.
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Human evolution
Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes.
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Hypoxia (environmental)
Hypoxia (hypo: "below", oxia: "oxygenated") refers to low oxygen conditions.
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Iapetus Ocean
The Iapetus Ocean existed in the late Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic eras of the geologic timescale (between 600 and 400 million years ago).
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
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Iceberg
An iceberg is a piece of freshwater ice more than long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
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Iceland hotspot
The Iceland hotspot is a hotspot which is partly responsible for the high volcanic activity which has formed the Iceland Plateau and the island of Iceland.
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Iceland Plateau
The Iceland Plateau or Icelandic Plateau is an oceanic plateau in the North Atlantic Ocean consisting of Iceland and its contiguous shelf and marginal slopes.
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Icelandic Low
The Icelandic Low is a semi-permanent centre of low atmospheric pressure found between Iceland and southern Greenland and extending in the Northern Hemisphere winter into the Barents Sea.
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Iliad
The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) is an issue around the world.
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Illex argentinus
Illex argentinus, commonly known as the Argentine shortfin squid, is a species of squid in the family Ommastrephidae from the south western Atlantic Ocean.
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Incineration
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx. Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean are oceans and oceans surrounding Antarctica.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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International Hydrographic Organization
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) (French: Organisation hydrographique internationale) is an intergovernmental organisation representing hydrography.
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International waters
The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands.
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Intertropical Convergence Zone
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ, or ICZ), known by sailors as the doldrums or the calms because of its monotonous windless weather, is the area where the northeast and the southeast trade winds converge.
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Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea (Iónio Pélagos,; Mar Ionio or Mar Jonio,; Deti Jon) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Irish Sea
The Irish Sea is a body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.
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Irminger Sea
The Irminger Sea is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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James Bay
James Bay (Baie James; dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada.
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John Cabot
John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto; 1450 – 1499) was an Italian navigator and explorer.
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Kattegat
The Kattegat (Kattegatt) is a sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the west, the Danish straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Skåne in Sweden in the east.
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Laacher See
Laacher See, also known as Lake Laach or Laach Lake, is a volcanic caldera lake with a diameter of in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, about northwest of Koblenz, south of Bonn, and west of Andernach.
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Labrador Sea
The Labrador Sea (mer du Labrador; Labradorhavet) is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland.
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Labrador Sea Water
Labrador Sea Water is an intermediate water mass characterized by cold water, relatively low salinity compared to other intermediate water masses, and high concentrations of both oxygen and anthropogenic tracers.
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Lake Maracaibo
Lake Maracaibo (Lago de Maracaibo) is a brackish lake located in northwestern Venezuela, between the states of Zulia, Trujillo, and Mérida.
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Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) is a research institution specializing in the Earth science and climate change.
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Landnámabók
Landnámabók ("Book of Settlements"), often shortened to Landnáma, is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement (landnám) of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE.
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Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture
The Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture is a Unesco World Heritage Site on Pico Island, part of the archipelago of the Azores, Portugal.
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Large igneous province
A large igneous province (LIP) is an extremely large accumulation of igneous rocks, including intrusive (sills, dikes) and extrusive (lava flows, tephra deposits), arising when magma travels through the crust towards the surface.
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Last Glacial Maximum
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.
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Laurentian Fan
The Laurentian Fan or Laurentian Abyss is an underwater depression off the eastern coast of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic Ocean and Laurentian Fan are landforms of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Laurentide ice sheet
The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present.
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Levantine Sea
The Levantine Sea (baḥr as-Shām, or labels; Levanten Denizi, or Levant Denizi; Thálassa tou Levánte; ha-Yam ha-Levantíni) is the easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Libyan Sea
The Libyan Sea (Libycum Mare; البحر الليبي; Λιβυκό πέλαγος) is the portion of the Mediterranean Sea north of the African coast of ancient ''Libya'', i.e. Cyrenaica, and Marmarica (the coast of what is now eastern Libya and western Egypt, between Tobruk and Alexandria).
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Ligurian Sea
The Ligurian Sea (Mar Ligure; Mer Ligurienne; Mâ Ligure; Mari Liguru) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea.
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List of countries and territories bordering the Atlantic Ocean
This is a list of states and territories (in italics) with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean (including the Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas).
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List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
This is a list of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the largest of which is Greenland.
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List of ports and harbours of the Atlantic Ocean
This is a list of ports and harbours of the Atlantic Ocean, excluding the ports of the Baltic Sea.
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List of seas on Earth
This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits.
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Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region.
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Lobster
Lobsters are malacostracans of the family Nephropidae (synonym Homaridae).
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Lutjanidae
Lutjanidae, or snappers are a family of perciform fish, mainly marine, but with some members inhabiting estuaries, feeding in fresh water.
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Mackerel
Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae.
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Mafic
A mafic mineral or rock is a silicate mineral or igneous rock rich in magnesium and iron.
Magdalenian
The Magdalenian cultures (also Madelenian; French: Magdalénien) are later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in western Europe.
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Magmatism
Magmatism is the emplacement of magma within and at the surface of the outer layers of a terrestrial planet, which solidifies as igneous rocks.
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Manatee
Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.
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Manganese nodule
Polymetallic nodules, also called manganese nodules, are mineral concretions on the sea bottom formed of concentric layers of iron and manganese hydroxides around a core.
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Marine debris
Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human-created solid material that has deliberately or accidentally been released in seas or the ocean.
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Marine isotope stages
Marine isotope stages (MIS), marine oxygen-isotope stages, or oxygen isotope stages (OIS), are alternating warm and cool periods in the Earth's paleoclimate, deduced from oxygen isotope data derived from deep sea core samples.
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Marine mammal
Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence.
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Marine pollution
Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Meiosis (figure of speech)
In rhetoric, meiosis is a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is.
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Merluccius capensis
Merluccius capensis (shallow-water Cape hake or South African hake) is a ray-finned fish in the genus Merluccius, found in the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean, along the coast of South Africa.
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Merluccius paradoxus
Merluccius paradoxus, the deep-water Cape hake, is a merluccid hake of the genus Merluccius, found in the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean, along the coast of Southern Africa, south of Angola.
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge (a divergent or constructive plate boundary) located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.
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Mid-ocean ridge
A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics.
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Midden
A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.
Milwaukee Deep
Milwaukee Deep, also known as the Milwaukee Depth, is part of the Puerto Rico Trench.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Mixed layer
The oceanic or limnological mixed layer is a layer in which active turbulence has homogenized some range of depths.
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Natural delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic oceans by the Scotia Arc
The natural delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans by the Scotia arc (in Spanish: Delimitación natural entre los océanos Pacífico y Atlántico Sur por el arco de las Antillas Australes) is the title of a scientific theory developed in Chile in which it was postulated that the boundary between the Southeast Pacific Ocean and the Southwest Atlantic Ocean would not be the meridian of the Cape Horn, but rather the Scotia Arc, an underwater orographic chain which links the Tierra del Fuego archipelago with the Antarctic continent.
Natural delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic oceans by the Shackleton Fracture Zone
The natural delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans by the Shackleton Fracture Zone is the title of a scientific theory developed in Chile and other countries in which it is postulated that the boundary between the southeastern Pacific Ocean and the southwestern Atlantic Ocean would not be the so-called Cape Horn meridian, but is the Shackleton Fracture Zone, mid-oceanic ridge and submarine orographic chain which links the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago with the Antarctic continent.
Naval operations of the Mexican drug war
Timeline of Mexican Naval anti-drug cartel operations during the Mexican drug war are listed below.
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Nehemiah Wallington
Nehemiah Wallington (1598–1658) was an English Puritan artisan (a wood turner) and chronicler from Eastcheap.
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Nephrops norvegicus
Nephrops norvegicus, known variously as the Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, shlobster (shrimp-lobster), langoustine (compare langostino) or shrimp, is a slim, coral colored lobster that grows up to long, and is "the most important commercial crustacean in Europe".
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New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.
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Newfoundland (island)
Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.
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Norse colonization of North America
The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating a short term settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland. Atlantic Ocean and Norse colonization of North America are history of the Atlantic Ocean.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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North American Plate
The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.
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North Atlantic Current
The North Atlantic Current (NAC), also known as North Atlantic Drift and North Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward.
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North Atlantic Deep Water
North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) is a deep water mass formed in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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North Atlantic garbage patch
The North Atlantic garbage patch is a garbage patch of man-made marine debris found floating within the North Atlantic Gyre, originally documented in 1972.
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North Atlantic Gyre
The North Atlantic Gyre of the Atlantic Ocean is one of five great oceanic gyres.
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North Atlantic oscillation
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a weather phenomenon over the North Atlantic Ocean of fluctuations in the difference of atmospheric pressure at sea level (SLP) between the Icelandic Low and the Azores High.
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North Equatorial Current
The North Equatorial Current (NEC) is a westward wind-driven current mostly located near the equator, but the location varies from different oceans.
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North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
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North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
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Norwegian Sea
The Norwegian Sea (Norskehavet; Noregshaf; Norskahavið) is a marginal sea, grouped with either the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Norway between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea, adjoining the Barents Sea to the northeast.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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Nuclear weapons testing
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons and have resulted until 2020 in up to 2.4 million people dying from its global fallout.
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Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx. Atlantic Ocean and ocean are oceans.
Ocean gyre
In oceanography, a gyre is any large system of circulating ocean surface currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements.
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Oceanic basin
In hydrology, an oceanic basin (or ocean basin) is anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater.
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Oceanic plateau
An oceanic or submarine plateau is a large, relatively flat elevation that is higher than the surrounding relief with one or more relatively steep sides.
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Oceanic trench
Oceanic trenches are prominent, long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor.
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Oceanus
In Greek mythology, Oceanus (Ὠκεανός, also Ὠγενός, Ὤγενος, or Ὠγήν) was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world.
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Odyssey
The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
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Oil spill
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.
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Old World
The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe after 1493, when Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas.
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OSPAR Convention
The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic or OSPAR Convention is the current legislative instrument regulating international cooperation on environmental protection in the North-East Atlantic.
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Overfishing
Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming increasingly underpopulated in that area.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean are oceans and oceans surrounding Antarctica.
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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Geophysical Union.
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Pandalus borealis
Pandalus borealis is a species of caridean shrimp found in cold parts of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific Oceans, although the latter population now often is regarded as a separate species, P. eous.
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Pangaea
Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
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Pannonian Basin
The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeast Central Europe.
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Paraná and Etendeka traps
The Paraná-Etendeka Large Igneous Province (PE-LIP) (or Paraná and Etendeka Plateau; or Paraná and Etendeka Province) is a large igneous province that includes both the main Paraná traps (in Paraná Basin, a South American geological basin) as well as the smaller severed portions of the flood basalts at the Etendeka traps (in northwest Namibia and southwest Angola).
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Passive margin
A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin.
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Paul Schultz Martin
Paul Schultz Martin (born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1928, died in Tucson, Arizona September 13, 2010)Mari N. Jensen.
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Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral (born Pedro Álvares de Gouveia) was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil.
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Pelagic fish
Pelagic fish live in the pelagic zone of ocean or lake waters—being neither close to the bottom nor near the shore—in contrast with demersal fish that live on or near the bottom, and reef fish that are associated with coral reefs.
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Peopling of the Americas
The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago).
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Petrel
Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.
Pillars of Hercules
The Pillars of Hercules are the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.
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Pillow lava
Pillow lavas are lavas that contain characteristic pillow-shaped structures that are attributed to the extrusion of the lava underwater, or subaqueous extrusion.
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Pinniped
Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
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Piracy in the Atlantic World
The Atlantic World refers to the period between European colonization of the Americas (1492-) and the early nineteenth century.
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Placer deposit
In geology, a placer deposit or placer is an accumulation of valuable minerals formed by gravity separation from a specific source rock during sedimentary processes.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pollachius virens
Pollachius virens is a species of marine fish in the genus Pollachius.
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Porcupine Bank
Porcupine Bank is an area of the Irish shelf, on the fringes of the Atlantic Ocean approximately west of Ireland.
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Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.
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Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories
Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492.
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Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
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Puerto Rico Trench
The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, parallel to and north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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Recent African origin of modern humans
In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans or the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA) is the most widely accepted model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens).
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Redfish
Redfish is a common name for several species of fish.
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Revista de Marina
Revista de Marina is a bimonthly magazine published by the Chilean Navy since 1885.
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Rift valley
A rift valley is a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges produced by the action of a geologic rift.
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Rio Grande Rise
The Rio Grande Rise, also called the Rio Grande Elevation or Bromley Plateau, is an aseismic ocean ridge in the southern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil.
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Rocas Atoll
The Rocas Atoll (Atol das Rocas) is the only atoll in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Rockall
Rockall is an uninhabitable granite islet in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Romanche Trench
The Romanche Trench, also called the Romanche Furrow or Romanche Gap, is the third-deepest of the major trenches of the Atlantic Ocean, after the Puerto Rico Trench and the South Sandwich Trench.
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Round sardinella
The round sardinella (Sardinella aurita) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella found in both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Salinity
Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity).
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Sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.
Sand eel
Sand eel or sandeel is the common name used for a considerable number of species of fish.
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Sardinella brasiliensis
Sardinella brasiliensis, (Brazilian sardinella or orangespot sardine) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.
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Sardinops
Sardinops is a monotypic genus of sardines of the family Alosidae.
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Sargasso Sea
The Sargasso Sea is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre.
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Sargassum
Sargassum is a genus of brown macroalgae (seaweed) in the order Fucales of the Phaeophyceae class.
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Sargassum fish
The sargassum fish, anglerfish, or frog fish (Histrio histrio) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes, the only species in the genus Histrio.
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Scotia Arc
The Scotia Arc is the island arc system forming the north, east and south border of the Scotia Sea.
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Scotia Sea
The Scotia Sea is a sea located at the northern edge of the Southern Ocean at its boundary with the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Scotian Shelf
The Scotian Shelf is a geological formation, part of the Continental shelf, located southwest of Nova Scotia, Canada. Atlantic Ocean and Scotian Shelf are landforms of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Sea ice
Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.
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Sea level rise
Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.
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Sea of Azov
The Sea of Azov is an inland shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea.
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Sea of Crete
Map of the Sea of Crete The Sea of Crete (Kritiko Pelagos), or Cretan Sea, is a sea, part of the Aegean Sea, located in its southern extremity, with a total surface area of.
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Sea of Marmara
The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is a small inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey.
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Sea of the Hebrides
The Sea of the Hebrides (An Cuan Barrach) is a small and partly sheltered section of the North Atlantic Ocean, indirectly off the southern part of the north-west coast of Scotland.
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Sea surface temperature
Sea surface temperature (or ocean surface temperature) is the temperature of ocean water close to the surface.
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Seafloor spreading
Seafloor spreading, or seafloor spread, is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge.
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Seamount
A seamount is a large submarine landform that rises from the ocean floor without reaching the water surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet, or cliff-rock.
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Sebastes
Sebastes is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish.
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Secretary of State (England)
In the Kingdom of England, the title of Secretary of State came into being near the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, the usual title before that having been King's Clerk, King's Secretary, or Principal Secretary.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
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Seven Seas
"The Seven Seas" is a figurative term for all the seas of the known world. Atlantic Ocean and Seven Seas are oceans.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Skagerrak
The Skagerrak is a strait running between the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, the east coast of Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea.
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Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
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Slavery in Brazil
Slavery in Brazil began long before the first Portuguese settlement.
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Slavery in Britain
Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation (which occurred from approximately AD 43 to AD 410) and endured until the 11th century, when the Norman conquest of England resulted in the gradual merger of the pre-conquest institution of slavery into serfdom.
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Slavery in the United States
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.
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Solutrean hypothesis
The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas is the claim that the earliest human migration to the Americas began from Europe during the Solutrean Period, with Europeans traveling along pack ice in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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South American Plate
The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate, with which it forms the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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South Atlantic Gyre
The South Atlantic Gyre is the subtropical gyre in the south Atlantic Ocean.
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South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone
The South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone (abbreviations: ZPCAS or ZOPACAS; Zona de Paz y Cooperación del Atlántico Sur; Zona de Paz e Cooperação do Atlântico Sul; also called the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic) was created in 1986 through resolution A/RES/41/11 of the U.N.
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South Atlantic tropical cyclone
South Atlantic tropical cyclones are unusual weather events that occur in the Southern Hemisphere.
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South Sandwich Trench
The South Sandwich Trench is a deep arcuate trench in the South Atlantic Ocean lying to the east of the South Sandwich Islands.
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Southern African anchovy
The southern African anchovy (Engraulis capensis) is a species of anchovy which occurs in the southeast Atlantic Ocean near Namibia and South Africa.
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Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. Atlantic Ocean and southern Ocean are oceans and oceans surrounding Antarctica.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
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Spiny dogfish
The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish is one of the best known species of the Squalidae (dogfish) family of sharks, which is part of the Squaliformes order.
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Sprat
Sprat is the common name applied to a group of forage fish belonging to the genus Sprattus in the family Clupeidae.
Stesichorus
Stesichorus (Στησίχορος, Stēsichoros; c. 630 – 555 BC) was a Greek lyric poet native of Metauros (Gioia Tauro today).
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Strait of Gibraltar
The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa.
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Submarine canyon
A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental slope, sometimes extending well onto the continental shelf, having nearly vertical walls, and occasionally having canyon wall heights of up to, from canyon floor to canyon rim, as with the Great Bahama Canyon.
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Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
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Svalbard
Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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Sverdrup
In oceanography, the sverdrup (symbol: Sv) is a non-SI metric unit of volumetric flow rate, with equal to.
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Tethys Ocean
The Tethys Ocean (Τηθύς), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Thermocline
A thermocline (also known as the thermal layer or the metalimnion in lakes) is a distinct layer based on temperature within a large body of fluid (e.g. water, as in an ocean or lake; or air, e.g. an atmosphere) with a high gradient of distinct temperature differences associated with depth.
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Thermohaline circulation
Thermohaline circulation (THC) is a part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients created by surface heat and freshwater fluxes.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
Titans
In Greek mythology, the Titans (οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, hoi Tītânes, ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītân) were the pre-Olympian gods.
Transatlantic crossing
Transatlantic crossings are passages of passengers and cargo across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe or Africa and the Americas.
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Triassic–Jurassic extinction event
The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME), often called the end-Triassic extinction, was a Mesozoic extinction event that marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods,, and is one of the top five major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans.
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Tristan hotspot
The Tristan hotspot is a volcanic hotspot which is responsible for the volcanic activity which forms the volcanoes in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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Tyrrhenian Sea
The Tyrrhenian Sea (Mar Tirreno or)Mer Tyrrhénienne Tyrrhēnum mare, Mare Tirrenu, Mari Tirrenu, Mari Tirrenu, Mare Tirreno is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Hydrographic Office
The United States Hydrographic Office (USHO) prepared and published maps, charts, and nautical books required in navigation.
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Vasco da Gama
D. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (– 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea.
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Vegetative reproduction
Vegetative reproduction (also known as vegetative propagation, vegetative multiplication or cloning) is a form of asexual reproduction occurring in plants in which a new plant grows from a fragment or cutting of the parent plant or specialized reproductive structures, which are sometimes called vegetative propagules.
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Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
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Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America.
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Wadden Sea
The Wadden Sea (Waddenzee; Wattenmeer; Wattensee or Waddenzee; Vadehavet; longname; di Heef) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea.
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Walvis Ridge
The Walvis Ridge (walvis means whale in Dutch and Afrikaans) is an aseismic ocean ridge in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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Water mass
An oceanographic water mass is an identifiable body of water with a common formation history which has physical properties distinct from surrounding water.
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Western Europe
Western Europe is the western region of Europe.
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Wild fisheries
A wild fishery is a natural body of water with a sizeable free-ranging fish or other aquatic animal (crustaceans and molluscs) population that can be harvested for its commercial value.
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Wilson Cycle
The Wilson Cycle is a model that describes the opening and closing of ocean basins and the subduction and divergence of tectonic plates during the assembly and disassembly of supercontinents.
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Wind shear
Wind shear /ʃɪr/ (or windshear), sometimes referred to as wind gradient, is a difference in wind speed and/or direction over a relatively short distance in the atmosphere.
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Witch (righteye flounder)
The witch (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), known in English by a variety of other common names including the witch flounder, pole flounder, craig fluke, Torbay sole, and grey sole, is a species of flatfish from the family Pleuronectidae.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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Y chromosome
The Y chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes in therian mammals and other organisms.
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Yellowtail flounder
The yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea), also known as the rusty dab, is a species of flatfish in the family Pleuronectidae (righteye flounders).
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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Yzerfontein
Yzerfontein, or Ysterfontein, is a small harbour town with about 1200 inhabitants on the west coast of South Africa about 90 km north of Cape Town.
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15th parallel north
The 15th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 15 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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16th parallel north
The 16th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 16 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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20th meridian east
The meridian 20° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic and Indian oceans, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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25th parallel north
The 25th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 25 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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25th parallel south
The 25th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 25 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane, just south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
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40th parallel north
The 40th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 40 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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53rd parallel north
The 53rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 53 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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54th parallel south
The 54th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 54 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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60th parallel north
The 60th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees north of Earth's equator.
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60th parallel south
The 60th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees south of Earth's equatorial plane.
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See also
Landforms of the Atlantic Ocean
- Argentine Abyssal Plain
- Argentine Basin
- Atlantic Ocean
- Barra Fan and Hebrides Terrace Seamount Marine Protected Area
- Bear Seamount
- Blake Basin
- Geikie Slide
- Georges Bank
- Gorringe Ridge
- Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
- Laurentian Fan
- Macaronesia
- Madeira Abyssal Plain
- Mid-Atlantic Bight
- Nantucket Shoals
- Nazaré Canyon
- Northeast Georgia Rise
- Outer Continental Shelf
- Patagonian Shelf
- Porcupine Abyssal Plain
- Scotian Shelf
- Sohm Abyssal Plain
Oceans surrounding Antarctica
- Antarctic sea ice
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Southern Ocean
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