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100 unusual facts about Atlantic Ocean


A897 road

Melvich is about 40 miles (64 km) away, on the north-facing Atlantic coast.

Abd al-Mu'min

Having put his predecessor's doctrinal blend of Zahirite jurisprudence and Ash'arite dogmatics into practice, Abd al-Mu'min's rule was the first to unite the whole coast from Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean along with Spain under one creed and one government.

Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

Originally, the Department of State first established a Division of Western European Affairs in 1909, which handled European nations primarily bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and their colonies.

Atlantic Realm

It is the soundtrack to the BBC television series The Natural World: Atlantic Realm, a documentary about the Atlantic Ocean.

Augustin Chantrel

In 1930, he was selected to the squad that travelled across the Atlantic on board the Conte Verde to play in the first ever World Cup tournament in Montevideo.

Bahía Blanca Partido

The provincial subdivision holds a population of 284,776 inhabitants in an area of 2,300 km² (888 sq mi), and its capital city is Bahía Blanca, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.

Barbara Pennington

Her single "On a Crowded Street", from the album Out of the Darkest Night, became popular on both sides of the Atlantic in 1985.

Bermuda Pedestal

The Bermuda Pedestal is an oval-shaped geological feature in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

Betic corridor

The Betic Corridor, or North-Betic Strait, was a strait of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean that once separated the Iberian plate from the Eurasian plate through the Betic Cordillera.

Betsy-Tacy

Deep Valley is the setting for all the books, except for Betsy and the Great World, in which the title character travels across the Atlantic Ocean and to various countries in Europe, and Betsy's Wedding, which takes place in New York and Minneapolis.

Bird colony

For example, there was once a large seabird known as the Great Auk, which nested in colonies in the North Atlantic.

Bonellia viridis

The species is wide-ranging, found in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the Mediterranean and Red seas.

Brazil–Nigeria relations

The two nations, one the largest country in Latin America by size, the other the largest country in Africa by population, are remotely bordered across from one another by the Atlantic Ocean.

Brethren of the Coast

The Brethren or Brethren of the Coast were a loose coalition of pirates and privateers commonly known as buccaneers and active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

Burmeister's porpoise

Its range appears to be continuous in coastal waters from northern Peru in the Pacific round Tierra del Fuego and up to southern Brazil in the Atlantic.

Caliphate

The Fatimid Islamic Caliphate or al-Fāṭimiyyūn (Arabic الفاطميون) was an Isma'ili Shi'a Muslim caliphate that spanned a vast area of the Arab world, from the Red Sea in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west.

Chapman's Peak

The western flank of the mountain falls sharply for hundreds of metres into the Atlantic Ocean.

Climate of Kosovo

Important factors that affect Kosovo's climate are: its position towards Eurasia and Africa, hydrographic masses (Atlantic ocean and Mediterranean sea), atmospheric masses (tropic, arctic and continental) etc.

Clive Scott

The band's merits include the million-selling 1975 hit single "Sky High", reaching top placing on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in Japan.

Clooneenagh Townland

The Creegh River flows through the village and enters the Atlantic Ocean at Doughmore Bay near Doonbeg.

Club Atlético Ferrocarril General San Martín

Green represented the Argentine Pampas; blue simbolized the Pacific Ocean (which railway connected to the Atlantic crossing Buenos Aires and the Provinces of Cuyo Region.

Crossing the River

Geographically, the river refers to the Atlantic Ocean, the main body of water that Africans had to cross when traveling to America.

David Courtney

He released one album of his own on United Artists in 1974 entitled David Courtney's First Day; it saw some success on both sides of the Atlantic, and peaked at #194 on the US Billboard 200.

David Gatten

To produce What the Water Said, Nos.1-3, Gatten placed unexposed rolls of film in crab traps in the Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast.

Dean Parrish

Interest in Parrish's mid 1960s recording career began to gain in popularity but Parrish himself remained completely unaware of his popularity on the other side of the Atlantic and the Wigan Casino itself until the early 2000s.

Distin family

They accepted a 40 concert booking in New York for the 1849 season, but the venue burned to the ground while they were crossing the Atlantic.

Doug Farquhar

Douglas Methven Farquhar (11 June 1921 in Methil, Fife – 20 February 2005 in New York) was a Scottish-American soccer player who played professionally on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Eggnog

The drink crossed the Atlantic to the English colonies during the 18th century.

Erdeven

Attractions include a seven kilometre-long beach beside the Atlantic and many prehistoric sites featuring megaliths.

Federal Palace Hotel

The Federal Palace Hotel is a 150-room hotel that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean, located in the commercial hub of Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria.

First Battle of Fort Fisher

The First Battle of Fort Fisher, was a siege fought from December 23–27, 1864, was a failed attempt by Union forces to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina, the South's last major port on the Atlantic Ocean.

French cruiser Dupleix

While on patrol in the Atlantic with the destroyers, Le Fantasque and Le Terrible, she intercepted and captured the German freighter Santa Fé, on 25 October 1939, On 14 June 1940, Dupleix participated in the French raid on Genoa, with sister ships Foch and Colbert.

Future of the Royal Navy

At the beginning of the 1990s the Royal Navy was a force designed for the Cold War: with its three small aircraft carriers and a force of anti-submarine frigates and destroyers, its main purpose was to search for – and in the event of an actual declaration of war, to destroy – Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic.

Geography of Iceland

: Northern Europe (for cultural and historical reasons it is not considered to be a part of North America), between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the British Isles.

Georg Wüst

Georg Adolf Otto Wüst (June 15, 1890 - November 8, 1977) was a German oceanographer known for his work on the Atlantic Ocean.

Gerard De Geer

The Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904) named a glacier on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean after De Geer.

Gofraid ua Ímair

In the following decade it is supposed that the grandsons of Ímar may have been in some part of the Atlantic or Irish Sea coasts of Britain where the historical record sheds almost no light on events, the area in question extending from the Isle of Man through the Hebrides to the Northern Isles, as well as the coasts opposite.

Great West Road, Zambia

The long term intention is to then continue the highway into Angola and to connect with its road network as a new trade route for Zambia to Atlantic Ocean ports.

Harbinger of Apocalypse

The bomb exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, killing the Harbinger, but Cable was saved by a group of time travellers.

Hebron, New York

These Hebron waters mingle in the Saint Lawrence with waters of all the Great Lakes as they flow northeast into Hudson Bay, and ultimately join the Atlantic Ocean.

Hilda Woolnough

Towards the end of her life, Woolnough could be seen swimming daily in the Atlantic Ocean off Victoria, in her home province of Prince Edward Island.

Holzgerlingen

The wettest month of the year is November, when frequent storm systems blowing in off of both the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

Iberian Union

The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including Bahia (and its capital Salvador), Pernambuco (and its capital Recife), Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

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On the other hand, the Iberian Union opened to both countries a worldwide span of control, as Portugal dominated the African and Asian coasts that surrounded the Indian Ocean, and Spain the Pacific Ocean and both sides of Central and South America, while both shared the Atlantic Ocean space.

Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands

The Eastern Woodlands extended roughly from the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern Great Plains, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, which is now the eastern United States and Canada.

J. G. M. Ramsey

As early as 1825, Ramsey had proposed connecting Knoxville with the Atlantic Coast via railroad, which would have given the region's farmers better access to markets in Charleston.

Jeffrey Energy Center

The unit 2 intermediate pressure turbine had to be replaced by the unit 3 turbine when the original unit was lost on a ship that sunk during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.

Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation

Photo taken from Phares des Baleines (Whale Lighthouse) at the western point of Île de Ré (Isle of Rhé), France, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Keep Yourself Alive

"Keep Yourself Alive" was largely ignored upon its release and failed to chart on either side of the Atlantic.

Kenneth Martin Willett

Kenneth Martin Willett was an American naval reserve officer who died in during World War II in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Kettle Mucubají

This moraine changed the course of the ravine from Rio Chama to Rio Orinoco and to the Atlantic Ocean.

Laurence Harbor, New Jersey

From a military perspective, the area was useful for its high bayside cliffs, which allowed for strategic observation of ships traveling between New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean.

Lesser Black-backed Gull

The Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe.

Level Headed

It features "Love Is Like Oxygen", the band's last original single to hit the top 40 on both sides of the Atlantic, peaking at #8 in the US and #9 in the UK.

Marin Medak

Marin is one of the youngest ocean rowing expedition leader and the first Slovenian to row across the Atlantic Ocean.

Maritigrella crozierae

Maritigrella crozierae is found in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Michael Klukowski

He began his career in Canada playing for the Oshawa Kicks and Scarborough Azzurri-Blues, before travelling across the Atlantic to link up with Dijon FCO in 1999.

Mittelafrika

German strategic thinking was that if the region between the colonies of German East Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania minus the island of Zanzibar), German South-West Africa (Namibia minus Walvis Bay), and Cameroon could be annexed, a contiguous entity could be created covering the breadth of the African continent from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.

Mount Watatic

The east and south side of the mountain drains into the Souhegan River watershed, to the Merrimack River thence the Atlantic Ocean; the west and north sides drain into the Millers River watershed, to the Connecticut River, thence into Long Island Sound.

Napoleon at Saint Helena

The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.

New Hampshire Wildcats

The University of New Hampshire campus is located about a mile from the Great Bay estuary, which runs out to the Atlantic Ocean.

New Jersey Route 166

There, Route 166 turns to the northeast, running along the shoreline for the Atlantic Ocean.

Nicholas J. Spykman

Other than the two continents there are offshore islands of significance are Britain and Japan, while the New World, buffered by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Nick McCave

McCave uses monitoring points in the North Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean to study how the Earth’s meridional heat flux is distributed by warm surface-ocean currents and cold deep-ocean currents.

Nikolai Baturin

After attending a high school, military service took him for five years to the Caspian oil-fields and the Atlantic Ocean; for fifteen years he was a hunter in the Siberian taiga.

Norath

About 1000 BC, it seems that the Celts, coming from the east, crossed the Rhine and settled the lands between that river on the one side and the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees on the other.

North American blizzard of 1947

With no weather reports generated from stations along its path, the storm was not predicted and it advanced over land from the Atlantic Ocean in a pattern that is the opposite of most snowstorms for the area.

North Atlantic Tracks

North Atlantic Tracks (NAT) are trans-Atlantic routes that stretch from the northeast of North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean.

Oceanus Hopkins

Oceanus Hopkins was named so because he was born in a ship in the Atlantic Ocean and the Latin word for the ocean is Oceanus.

Operation Matterhorn

That same month, the first Superfortresses arrived in India, having flown across the Atlantic Ocean using the South Atlantic Transport route from Morrision Field, Florida to Natal, Brazil then across to North Africa, then to Arabia, and Persia.

Ophioglossum azoricum

Ophioglossum azoricum is native to islands in the northern Atlantic Ocean and adjacent westernmost Europe from the Azores north to western France, the British Isles, Iceland and Greenland.

Paleontology in Louisiana

During the Middle Jurassic, Bathonian and Callovian, the stretching of the crust between North and South America created a broad basin within the continental crust that opened initially to the Pacific Ocean and later to the Atlantic Ocean.

Philip M. Morse

Early in 1942 he organized the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group (ASWORG), later ORG, for the U.S. Navy, after the US had entered World War II and was faced with the problem of Nazi German U-boat attacks on transatlantic shipping.

Pliciloricus enigmaticus

Pliciloricus enigmaticus is a species that has been designated for the waters of the Atlantic Ocean north and northwest.

Postage stamps and postal history of Bermuda

Bermuda, a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, was previously uninhabited when the British established a settlement in 1612.

Postage stamps and postal history of Guinea

Guinea forms a crescent by curving from its western border on the Atlantic Ocean toward the east and the south.

Postage stamps and postal history of Mauritania

Mauritania is a country in North Africa bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest.

Ralph Cahoon

Growing up close to the Atlantic Ocean, young Ralph spent many of his days sailing, fishing, digging clams, and sketching the coast.

Robert Zarinsky

He also stated to another investigator that he had thrown her body into the Atlantic Ocean.

Salix herbacea

herbacea is adapted to survive in harsh environments, and has a wide distribution on both sides of the North Atlantic, in arctic northwest Asia, northern Europe, Greenland, and eastern Canada, and further south on high mountains, south to the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Rila in Europe, and the northern Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.

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Distributed widely in alpine and arctic environments around the North Atlantic Ocean, it is one of the smallest of woody plants.

Santa Maria hijacking

The ship's mid-Atlantic service was also viewed as rather out of the ordinary: Lisbon to Madeira, to Tenerife, to La Guaira, to Curaçao, to Havana (later San Juan), and lastly Port Everglades.

Scaphiopus holbrookii

It is found in the southeastern United States, except for mountainous areas, and is also found northward along the Atlantic Coast, through the Mid-Atlantic states, into southern New England, including eastern Massachusetts.

Self-proclaimed monarchy

For two years he tried but failed to assert his claim to the small island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Southern hagfish

The Southern hagfish is found in the cold waters of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean from the coasts off Southwestern Brazil down to the Southern Ocean and the Tierra del Fuego and the Patagonian coasts of Chile and Argentina, including the Strait of Magellan.

Sport Club Santa Maria

Its logo represents a shield with a red ling with another line and its abbreviated form on top, it features the Atlantic Ocean on the bottom coloured from sky blue to navy blue with a soccer ball and a boat in the middle overlooking its setting sun which is colored along with the setting evening skies of yellow, light orange, orange and red.

St. Michael of Scarborough

Michael of Scarborough was a ship of the Atlantic that was set to transport Scottish prisoners to the Thames, so that they could be transported by Ralph Williamson to Plantations of America and was mastered in 1678 by Edward Johnston.

Stigmaphyllon

One species (S. bannisterioides) is also found in seashore vegetation along the Atlantic Coast from southern Mexico to northern Brazil, in the West Indies, and along the coast of western Africa (Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone).

Sy Berger

The barge was tugged a few miles, and the cards were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean.

The Balloon-Hoax

Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas balloon.

The Spy in the Green Hat

The base is run by Louis Strago, who in conjunction with former Nazi Dr. von Kronen is planning to detonate atomic bombs in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Stone Raft

The basic premise of the novel is that the Iberian Peninsula has broken off the European continent and is floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean; bureaucrats around the world are forced to deal with the traumatic effects, while five characters from across Portugal and Spain are drawn ever closer to one another, embarking on a journey within the peninsula as the landmass journeys itself.

Tuomo Ruutu

He crossed the Atlantic in 2003, playing a full 82 games with the Blackhawks in the 2003–04 NHL season.

Vale of Pickering

For its latitude this area is mild in winter and cooler in summer due to the influence of the Gulf Stream in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

Viana do Castelo-class patrol vessel

The eight to ten vessels of this class, specially designed to operate in the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, will replace the João Coutinho and Baptista de Andrade class corvettes — currently being decommissioned —, and the small patrol boats of the Cacine class in their primary fisheries protection role (SIFICAP) and in their search and rescue (SAR) roles.

Victor Henningsen

He served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean war zones as a midshipman, third and second mate in the merchant navy, finishing as Lt. (JG) in the United States Navy Reserve.

Waldemar F. A. Wendt

Headquartered in London, England, Wendt was responsible for all U.S. naval operations in Europe, the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, North Africa, and the Middle East.

WNG663

WNG663 (sometimes referred to as Princeton All Hazards) is a NOAA Weather Radio station that serves a part of the South Florida metropolitan area as well as the northern portion of the Florida Keys and can also be heard 35 miles into the Atlantic Ocean.

Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam

That fall, he embarked on another fund-raising trip and decided to resettle in New York to strengthen the American Jewish community there and to continue working for Holocaust survivors from that side of the Atlantic.

Yellow-chinned Spinetail

But apart from that region it occurs in most of South America in the area enclosed by – running counterclockwise – the lower Amazon and the Madeira river, the Andes, the Paraguay and lower Paraná rivers, and the Atlantic Ocean.


African Renaissance Monument

Built overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the Ouakam suburb, the statue was designed by the Senegalese architect Pierre Goudiaby after an idea presented by president Abdoulaye Wade and built by Mansudae Overseas Projects, a company from North Korea.

Alvania beanii

This species is distributed in European waters, from the North Coast of Norway and the North East Atlantic Ocean down to the Canary Islands.

Bathybius haeckelii

In 1868 Huxley studied an old sample of mud from the Atlantic seafloor taken in 1857.

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Boston Harbor

The harbor is sheltered from Massachusetts Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean by a combination of the Winthrop Peninsula and Deer Island to the north, the hooked Nantasket Peninsula and Point Allerton to the south, and the harbor islands in the middle.

Dwarf wrasse

The dwarf wrasse, Doratonotus megalepis, is a species of wrasse native to tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida, USA, to Brazil and in the eastern Atlantic from around Ile Las Rolas, São Tomé.

Elbow Beach, Bermuda

Located on the southern (Atlantic Ocean) coast of Paget Parish, it is also home to one of Bermuda's most famous resorts, the Elbow Beach Hotel.

Emaar Properties

Offering a mix of residential and commercial zones arranged around a marina, Tinja is located on the Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Flag of Saint Lucia

The triangles represent the island’s famous twin Pitons at Soufrière, the Cerulean Blue represents the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the gold represents the prevailing sunshine in the Caribbean and the black and white stand for the cultural influences of the nation.

German Cancer Aid

The public relation of the organization supports the German-Transatlantic cooperation to fight cancer.

Hermann Oelrichs

Hermann Oelrichs (June 8, 1850, Baltimore, Maryland – September 1, 1906, aboard SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Atlantic Ocean), was an American businessman, multimillionaire, and agent of Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping.

History of slavery in Alaska

Whereas the continental United States mostly saw enslavement of Africans brought across the Atlantic Ocean, in Alaska indigenous people, and some whites, enslaved indigenous people from other tribes.

Hofn Air Station

The Greenland, Iceland and United Kingdom air defense sector, better known as the GIUK gap, was routinely utilized by the Soviet Union's long range heavy bombers and maritime reconnaissance platforms as a transit point towards the Atlantic Ocean.

Igaraçu River

It flows from its origin on the Parnaiba River southwest of the city of Parnaíba to the mouth on the Atlantic Ocean near the city of Luís Correia.

International School of Dakar

It is situated close to the Atlantic Ocean and includes two separate complexes, one for middle and high school, and the other for the elementary school.

James C. Dobbin

He ordered U.S. Navy Lieutenant Isaac Strain to command a U.S. Darién Exploring Expedition to map and survey the Darién Gap for a Panama Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

John Wilson McConnell

During World War II, after the United States Lend-lease program was launched in March 1941, fellow Canadian businessman Max Aitken, the then volunteer British Minister of Aircraft Production, asked McConnell to help finance the training of pilots such as Jackie Cochran in the United States to ferry American-built aircraft across the Atlantic.

Labrisomus conditus

Labrisomus conditus, the Masquerader hairy blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off northeastern Brazil, and from Florida, USA, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Lyubytinsky District

Since the Pes belongs to the basin of the Volga, and the Syas, the Pchyovzha, and the Msta all belong to the basin of the Neva, the district is crossed by the divide between the basins of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caspian Sea.

Mississippian culture

#Widespread trade networks extending as far west as the Rockies, north to the Great Lakes, south to the Gulf of Mexico, and east to the Atlantic Ocean.

Outer barrier

The Ocean Parkway connects all three causeways and runs the length of the island, while The Fire Island Inlet Bridge continues on the Robert Moses Causeway finding its way to the New York's Fire Island on the Atlantic Ocean.

Overberg District Municipality

It includes Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point in Africa, and has coastline on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

Pampero Pass

Pampero is the cold wind that blows from the south Andes to the Atlantic Ocean.

Parnaíba River

The Parnaíba River rises in the Chapada das Mangabeiras range, and flows northeastward for 1,056 miles (1,700 kilometers) to empty into the Atlantic Ocean, being the longest river entirely located within Brazil's Northeast Region.

Parribacus antarcticus

antarcticus is distributed along the western coast the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to northern Brazil, along the southern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, and in Hawaii and Polynesia in the South Pacific Ocean.

Ribeira da Garça

Around halfway to the stream and up to Chã da Igreja is the main road of Cruzinha - Ribeira Grande that lies with the west side of the stream The river finally empties into the Atlantic that are surrounded by a cliffy coastline and is near a beach area located west of Cruzinha.

Seven Waves Away

The luxury liner SS Crescent Star sinks in seven minutes after striking a rogue mine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with her nearly all of the 1156 people on board.

Shadow Divers

In 1991, a group of divers, including Richie Kohler and John Chatterton, set out on Seeker to explore an unknown object lying 230 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and discover an apparent historical impossibility: a World War II German U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey.

Stasys Girėnas

After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 37 hours and 11 minutes, their plane crashed on July 17, 0:36 AM (Berlin Time) by the village of Kuhdamm, near Soldin, Germany (now Pszczelnik, Myślibórz County, Poland).

Swan Hunter

Based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century — most famously, the RMS Mauretania which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and the RMS Carpathia which rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic.

The Curse of Frankenstein

It also marked the beginning of a Gothic horror revival in the cinema on both sides of the Atlantic, paralleling the rise to fame of Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein series in the 1930s.

The Voyage of the Uí Chorra

As a final act of contrition, on the advice of St. Coman of Kinvara, the keeper of the last church they repaired, the three brothers set out on an Atlantic Ocean voyage on a small boat (a currach), accompanied by five others (a bishop, a priest, a deacon, a musician and the craftsman who built the boat).

Thermohaline circulation

Wind-driven surface currents (such as the Gulf Stream) travel polewards from the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, cooling en route, and eventually sinking at high latitudes (forming North Atlantic Deep Water).

Virals

The fathers are all employees of the Loggerhead Island Research Institute (LIRI), situated on Loggerhead Island, lying in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of Morris Island.