atlantic ocean

Noun
  1. The 2nd largest ocean;
    Separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east (synset 109232170)
    domain member region: battle of trafalgar, trafalgar - a naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain; the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (who was mortally wounded)
    is an instance of: ocean - a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
    has:
    • bermuda, bermudas - a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort
    • bermuda triangle - an area in the western Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes are supposed to have been mysteriously lost
    • cape verde islands - a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal
    • falkland islands - a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony
    • the indies, west indies - the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area
    • greenland, gronland, kalaallit nunaat - the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark
    • newfoundland - an island in the north Atlantic
    • british isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic
    • faeroe islands, faeroes, faroe islands, faroes - a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
    • iceland - a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle
    • orkney islands - an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland
    • shetland, shetland islands, zetland - an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland
    • democratic republic of sao tome and principe, sao thome e principe, sao tome and principe, sao tome e principe, st. thomas and principe - island nation in the South Atlantic off the west coast of Africa; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975; has enormous offshore oil reserves
    • tenerife - a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands
    • antarctic ocean - the southern waters surrounding Antarctica
    • atlantic coast - a coast of the Atlantic Ocean
    • bay of biscay - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain
    • bay of fundy - a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet
    • biscayne bay - a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida
    • bristol channel - an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England
    • buzzards bay - an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts
    • chesapeake bay - a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River
    • delaware bay - an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River
    • english channel - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain
    • galway bay - a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland
    • gulf of guinea - a gulf off the southwest coast of Africa
    • golfo de mexico, gulf of mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico
    • gulf of saint lawrence, gulf of st. lawrence - an arm of the northwest Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Canada
    • labrador sea - an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland
    • long island sound - a sound between Long Island and Connecticut
    • massachusetts bay - an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south
    • mid-atlantic ridge - a very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic
    • new york bay - a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River
    • north atlantic - that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator
    • north sea - an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970
    • norwegian sea - the part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea
    • penobscot bay - an inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine
    • sargasso sea - a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed
    • south atlantic - that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the south of the equator
    • windward passage - a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea
    same as: atlantic

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