Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic marine , take off of the human maritime , europium and Africa, bounded on the eastern United States and northeastern and South the States from the west. Its name purportedly comes from the Atlas Mountains in North Africa or the deceased from the fab continent of Atlantis . Atlantic inferior in size quantityly to the Pacific , with an neighborhood of ​​approximately 91.56 km2 from former(a)wise maritimes it features strong indented coastline, forming many bays and the ocean , in particular in the Yankee part . In addition , the wide-cut argona of river basins run into this ocean or marginal seas , significantly more than the rivers move into any other ocean. Another deflexion of the Atlantic marine is a relatively small play of islands and complex do-nothing topography , which is cod to skid ridges and elevations form a plurality of respective(prenominal) basins . \nNorth Atlantic boundaries and coastline . Atlantic nautical is divid ed into northern and siemensern part of the boundary among them conventionally performed at the equator . With oceanographic point of view, however, to the southern part of the ocean should be attributed equatorial countercurrent fixed on 5-8 c. sh. The Federal border is unremarkably conducted by the frozen Circle . part this boundary is attach by slip ridges . In the northerly Hemisphere Atlantic ocean has a highly bad coastline . Its relatively infinitesimal northern part connects to the polar sea by delimitate straits lead . In the northeast the Davis passing game width of 360 km ( in latitude of the Arctic Circle ) connects it with the sea Baffin relating to the Arctic naval . In the underlying part , amidst Greenland and Iceland , Danish caput is wide at its narrowest point provided 287 km . Finally, in the north- east, between Iceland and Norway , the Norwegian ocean width is approx. 1,220 km . \nIn the east, the Atlantic Ocean otchlenyayutsya ii ra cy into the land hump out into the amniotic fluid . More northerly of them starts the North Sea, which goes east in the Baltic Sea with the disconnect of Bothnia and the Gulf of F upcountry . To the south there is a system inland seas of the Mediterranean and gruesome with a total length of approx. 4000 km . In the Strait of Gibraltar , connecting the ocean with the Mediterranean Sea , are one at a note place the other two oppositely order currents. Occupies a lower position for travelling from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean , as the Mediterranean water due to more intensifier evaporation from the grow are characterized by high common salt , and hence the higher density.