Atlantic Ocean
Second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about 106460000 km2.
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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.
As such, it is regarded as the second-smallest of the five principal oceanic divisions: smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans but larger than the Arctic Ocean.
Indian Ocean
Third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70560000 km2 or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface.
It was earlier known as the Eastern Ocean, a term that was still in use during the mid-18th century (see map), as opposed to the Western Ocean (Atlantic) before the Pacific was surmised.
Atlas Mountains
The Atlas Mountains (جِبَال ٱلْأَطْلَس /ʒibaːl al atˤlas/) are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa.
It separates the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert.
Strait of Gibraltar
The Strait of Gibraltar (مضيق جبل طارق; Estrecho de Gibraltar, Archaic: Pillars of Hercules), also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa.
Ocean
Body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water.
Separate names are used to identify five different areas of the ocean: Pacific (the largest), Atlantic, Indian, Southern (Antarctic), and Arctic (the smallest).
Atlas (mythology)
Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy.
The "Atlantic Ocean" is derived from "Sea of Atlas".
Norwegian Sea
The Norwegian Sea (Norskehavet; Noregshaf) is a marginal sea in the Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea, adjoining the Barents Sea to the northeast.
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 Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Greenland Sea
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.
The Greenland Sea is often defined as part of the Arctic Ocean, sometimes as part of the Atlantic Ocean.