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| + Added | Economy |
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| + Added | Environment.Climate.text |
— | tropical cyclones (hurricanes) develop off the coast of Africa near Cabo Verde and move westward into the Caribbean Sea; hurricanes can occur from May to December but are most frequent from August to November |
| + Added | Environment.Environmental issues.text |
— | endangered marine species; fishery issues (over-fishing, unregulated bottom trawling, drift-net fishing, discards, catch of non-target species); pollution (maritime transport, discharges, offshore drilling, oil spills, … |
| + Added | Environment.Marine fisheries.text |
— | the Atlantic Ocean fisheries are the second most important in the world accounting for 25.8%, or 20,300,000 mt, of the global catch in 2020; of the seven regions delineated by the Food and Agriculture Organization in th… |
| + Added | Geography.Area - comparative.text |
— | about 7.5 times the size of the US |
| + Added | Geography.Area.note |
— | note: includes Baffin Bay, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Caribbean Sea, Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, part of the Drake Passage, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Gulf of America, Labrador Sea, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, almost al… |
| + Added | Geography.Area.total .text |
— | 85.133 million sq km |
| + Added | Geography.Bathymetry.abyssal plains.text |
— | the following are examples of features on the abyssal plains of the Atlantic Ocean: Angola Basin (Figure 3) Agulhas Basin (Figure 3) Argentine Basin (Figure 3) Brazil Basin (Figure 3) Canary Basin (Figure 2) Cape Basin … |
| + Added | Geography.Bathymetry.atolls.text |
— | Rocas Atoll (Brazil) is the only atoll in the South Atlantic |
| + Added | Geography.Bathymetry.continental shelf.text |
— | the passive margins of the Atlantic Ocean provide for wide continental shelves in North America, Northwest Europe, and the southern coast of South America the following are examples of features on the continental shelf … |
| + Added | Geography.Bathymetry.continental slope.text |
— | the following are examples of features on the continental slope of the Atlantic Ocean: Amazon Cone (Figure 3) Congo Fan (Figure 3) Hudson Canyon (Figure 5) Mississippi Fan (Figure 5) |
| + Added | Geography.Bathymetry.mid-ocean ridge.text |
— | the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone displaces the mid-ocean ridge 350 km to the west, separating the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from the Reykjanes Ridge; the Romanche Fracture Zone, located near the equator, offsets the Mid-Atlanti… |
| + Added | Geography.Bathymetry.ocean trenches.text |
— | the following are examples of ocean trenches on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean: Cayman Trench (Caribbean Sea) (Figure 2) Hellenic Trench (Mediterranean Sea) (Figure 4) Puerto Rico Trench (Figure 2) - deepest point in t… |
| + Added | Geography.Bathymetry.undersea terrain features.text |
— | the following are examples of undersea terrain features on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean: Bermuda Rise (Figure 2) Cape Verde Plateau (Figure 2) New England Seamounts (Figure 2) Rio Grande Plateau (Figure 3) Rockall Pl… |
| + Added | Geography.Climate.text |
— | tropical cyclones (hurricanes) develop off the coast of Africa near Cabo Verde and move westward into the Caribbean Sea; hurricanes can occur from May to December but are most frequent from August to November |
| + Added | Geography.Coastline.text |
— | 111,866 km |
| + Added | Geography.Elevation.highest point.text |
— | sea level |
| + Added | Geography.Elevation.lowest point.text |
— | Puerto Rico Trench -8,605 m |
| + Added | Geography.Elevation.mean depth.text |
— | -3,646 m |
| + Added | Geography.Elevation.ocean zones.text |
— | the ocean is divided into three zones based on depth and light level; sunlight entering the water may travel about 1,000 m into the oceans under the right conditions, but there is rarely any significant light below 200 … |
| + Added | Geography.Geographic coordinates.text |
— | 0 00 N, 25 00 W |
| + Added | Geography.Geography - note.text |
— | major chokepoints include the Dardanelles, Strait of Gibraltar, access to the Panama and Suez Canals; strategic straits include the Strait of Dover, Straits of Florida, Mona Passage, The Sound (Oresund), and Windward Pa… |
| + Added | Geography.Location.text |
— | body of water between Africa, Europe, the Arctic Ocean, the Americas, and the Southern Ocean |
| + Added | Geography.Major ocean currents.text |
— | clockwise North Atlantic Gyre consists of the northward flowing, warm Gulf Stream in the west, the eastward flowing North Atlantic Current in the north, the southward flowing cold Canary Current in the east, and the wes… |
| + Added | Geography.Map references.text |
— | Map of the world oceans |
| + Added | Geography.Natural hazards.text |
— | icebergs common in Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, and the northwestern Atlantic Ocean from February to August and have been spotted as far south as Bermuda and the Madeira Islands; ships subject to superstructure icing i… |
| + Added | Geography.Natural resources.text |
— | oil and gas fields, fish, marine mammals (seals and whales), sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, precious stones |
| + Added | Geography.Ocean volume.ocean volume.text |
— | 310,410,900 cu km |
| + Added | Geography.Ocean volume.percent of World Ocean total volume.text |
— | 23.3% |
| + Added | Government.Country name.etymology.text |
— | name derives from the ancient Greek description of the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, Atlantis thalassa, meaning "Sea of Atlas" |
| + Added | Introduction.Background.text |
— | The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five ocean basins (after the Pacific Ocean, but larger than the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean). The Kiel Canal (Germany), Oresund (Denmark-Sweden)… |
| + Added | Military and Security |
— | {} |
| + Added | Transnational Issues |
— | {} |
| + Added | Transportation.Transportation - note.text |
— | Kiel Canal and Saint Lawrence Seaway are two important waterways; significant domestic commercial and recreational use of Intracoastal Waterway on central and south Atlantic seaboard and Gulf of America coast of US |