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100 unusual facts about Atlantic Ocean


1970 in Norway

17 May – Thor Heyerdahl and his crew sets sail from Morocco towards Latin America aboard Ra II, a papyrus boat modeled after ancient Egyptian sailing vessels, in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean and prove his theory that the ancient Egyptians sailed to America in ancient times.

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.

African swine fever virus

ASFV crossed the Atlantic Ocean and outbreaks were reported in some Caribbean islands, including the Dominican Republic.

Anti-submarine mortar

Anti-submarine warfare did not become an issue of great concern until World War I, when Germany used submarines in an attempt to strangle British shipping in the Atlantic Ocean and elsewhere.

Aosta Valley

This is probably due to the mountains blocking the mild winds from the Atlantic Ocean.

Arrábida Bridge

It is the most downstream bridge across the Douro River, just a few kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

Atlanta Township, Becker County, Minnesota

The township's name is derived from its rolling hills said to resemble the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Atlantis Expedition

Expedition Atlantis is the name given to the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean made by five Argentines in 1984, leaving from the port of Tenerife in the Canary Islands and 52 days after arriving to La Guaira in Venezuela.

Barmet Bay

Barmet Bay (according to The Shore Road Mystery, While the Clock Ticked, and other older titles) is horseshoe-shaped, and stretches about three miles from its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean to its shores along the fictional town of Bayport.

BMT Brighton Line

It was an excursion railroad — the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway — to bring beachgoers from downtown Brooklyn (via a connection with the Long Island Rail Road) to the seashore at Coney Island on the Atlantic Ocean, at a location named Brighton Beach at the same time the railroad arrived.

Bonellia viridis

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

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.

Bridges in Peoria, Illinois

The Illinois River is part of a waterway system that begins in New Orleans, Louisiana and exits the Atlantic Ocean via Chicago and the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

Brooklyn Community Board

It is delimited by Corbin Place, Coney Island Avenue, Avenue Y, 86th street, Avenue U and MacDonald Avenue, Avenue P and Kings Highway on the north, Nostrand avenue and Marine Park on the east, as well as by the Atlantic Ocean on the south.

Bulletin of the African Bird Club

It contains material concerning the wild birds of continental Africa, Indian Ocean islands west of 80° East, and Atlantic Ocean islands on or east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Buluggin ibn Ziri

Buluggin advanced towards the Atlantic Ocean during a campaign in Morocco, where he also fought against the Bargawata.

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.

Camp Perkins

The listening equipment could also pick up storm warnings along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

Carapax

He used his ship, the Bug, to sink the ship, and when Carapax tried to commandeer the Bug itself, he was sent hurtling into the Atlantic Ocean, where he sank without a trace.

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.

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.

Daphne Moon

At an indeterminate time, she migrates across the Atlantic to live in Seattle, seeking a new life free of her domineering family.

Darby Dan Farm

Darby Dan Farm is one of just two horse breeding farms in the world to both breed and own the Derby winners on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

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.

Discards

Canada has also instituted a ban on discarding at sea in its Atlantic groundfish fishery that makes it illegal to return to the water any groundfish except those specifically authorised and those caught in cod traps.

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.

Double Eagle V

Abruzzo and Newman had previously been two of the pilots of Double Eagle II, which in 1978 became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic.

Eosuchus

The fact that the two species of Eosuchus lived on either side of the Atlantic Ocean implies that these populations may have been separated geographically from one another while not necessarily having to be separated stratigraphically (that is, if the temporal ranges of the two species coincide with one another).

Firswood

John Alcock, who along with Arthur Whitten Brown was the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, was born in the lodge of Basford House on Seymour Grove, where his father was the coachman.

Flag of Guatemala

The two sky blue stripes represent the fact that Guatemala is a land located between two oceans, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean (Caribbean sea); and the sky over the country (see Guatemala's National Anthem).

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.

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.

The geography of Iceland entails the geographic features of Iceland, an island country at the confluence of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

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.

Green-throated Mango

In Brazil, the bird is only found on the narrow Atlantic coastal strip north and south of the Amazon River outlet, and a strip along the river proper, about 1500 km upstream.

Halodule beaudettei

It forms meadows in shallow sandy or muddy locations along the southern Atlantic coast of the United States, in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the Indian Ocean and on both sides of the South Atlantic Ocean in South America and Africa.

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.

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.

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.

Howard Association

Hampton Roads' plight drew assistance in the form of funds, supplies, and medical personnel from many other cities and communities, especially those located along the Atlantic and Gulf Coast areas of the United States.

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.

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.

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.

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.

José Luis Cabezas

On 25 January 1997, Cabezas was murdered at Pinamar, Argentina's most exclusive beach resort on the Atlantic Ocean, visited by politicians, businessmen, actors, sports figures and other celebrities.

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.

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.

Langanes 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.

Lateen

The Northern European adoption of the lateen in the Late Middle Ages was a specialized sail that was one of the technological developments in shipbuilding that made ships more maneuverable, thus, in the historian's traditional progression, permitting merchants to sail out of the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic Ocean; caravels typically mounted three or more lateens.

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.

Love Town

While the single and album had limited success in his home country of the U.S., Newberry's single was popular enough across the Atlantic to reach #6 on the UK Singles Chart, his only significant chart hit in either country.

Marin Medak

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

Menodora

This is a common pattern found in many genera, but not many others with a similar amphitropical distribution also have connections across the Atlantic with Africa.

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.

Mike Hentley

Michael Hentley was the administrator for the British overseas territory Tristan da Cunha, which is situated in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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.

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 Prospect Park

Mount Prospect is named for its sweeping views (some no longer possible) of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and parts of New Jersey and Staten Island to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and Long Island to the east.

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.

Natalya Simonova

Natalya breaks into the computer room and resets the satellite's course to cause a burn up over the Atlantic Ocean.

New Hampshire Route 27

The eastern terminus is in Hampton Beach at New Hampshire Route 1A, which runs along the New Hampshire coastline adjacent 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

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 Jersey Coast Line

Track was washed out in several places from Perth Amboy southward, most notably between South Amboy and Aberdeen-Matawan stations, where the line runs closest to the Atlantic Ocean.

Norval Jones

Norval Jones (October 10, 1926 – February 12, 2008) was an American WW II Sailor who with 27 other men with the average age of 72 years, made history in the winter of 2000 and 2001 when they sailed a WWII LST across the Atlantic from the island of Crete, Greece to Mobile, Alabama to restore as a living museum.

Oceanus

Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks.

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.

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.

Overberg District Municipality

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

Pan-Arabism

Pan-Arabism is an ideology espousing the unification of the countries of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea.

Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar

They were to sail to Portugal from there but adverse winds drifted their ship in the Atlantic Ocean taking it to the coast of Latin America.

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 dubius

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

Renner, South Dakota

After completing the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927, Charles Lindbergh made a stop in Renner on August 27, 1927.

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.

Self-proclaimed monarchy

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

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.

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.

SS Conte Grande

She was launched on 28 June 1927 and entered service with Lloyd Sabaudo of Genoa at Cantieri San Marco for service on the North Atlantic tourist and passenger trade.

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).

Summer Sail

Many of the member ships such as Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild's barkentine Gazela and the privately owned Canadian barque Picton Castle sail all over the Middle Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, giving tours and doing educational outreach whenever they are in port.

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 Book of Negroes

After several horrific months of voyage across the Atlantic Ocean she arrives in South Carolina where she begins a new life as a slave and her name is anglicized to Meena Dee.

Thomas Rundqvist

He played with the club until 1984, when he crossed the Atlantic and signed with the Montreal Canadiens (who had drafted him in 1983 (10th round, 198th pick overall)).

Through Hell and High Water

Five half-hour morning programmes (9.30–10am) on BBC1 followed James Cracknell (Olympic rower) and Ben Fogle (television presenter) in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in "Spirit of EDF Energy", a 24-foot rowing boat, with a half-hour summary programme during the evening of the final day on BBC2.

To Kill the Potemkin

With the ship's zampolit under arrest for negligence and the captain back in command, Potemkin makes a break for the Atlantic Ocean and a rendezvous with Soviet vessels working undercover in Cuba.

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.

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.

Whaling in Norway

Only Minke whaling is currently permitted, from a population of 107,000 animals in the North East Atlantic and is argued by proponents and government officials to be sustainable.

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.


2004–05 Columbus Blue Jackets season

While some players joined the Crunch, others crossed the Atlantic and played hockey in Europe.

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.

Bathybius haeckelii

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

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 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.

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.

Firth of Clyde

The Firth of Clyde encloses the largest and deepest coastal waters in the British Isles, sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire, Scotland.

Fort Belan

Fort Belan was the only purpose built fort of the American Revolution on the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean.

George Karsten

Das Phytoplankton des Atlantischen Ozeans nach dem Material der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 1898-1899 (Phytoplankton of the Atlantic Ocean from the German Deep-sea Valdivia Expedition); (1906).

Gerard De Geer

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

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.

Ibn Farrukh

He sailed from Kadesh in February 999 CE into the Atlantic, landed in Gando (Gran Canaria) visiting King Guanariga, and continued westward where he saw and named two islands, Capraria and Pluitana.

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.

Keep Yourself Alive

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

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.

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.

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.

Porcellana sayana

Porcellana sayana is found along the western coast of the Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Hatteras (United States) to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

Postage stamps and postal history of Spain

Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.

Rufus Choate

In July 1859 failing health led him to seek rest in a trip to Europe, but he died on July 13, 1859 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he had been put ashore when it was seen that he probably could not last the voyage across the Atlantic.

Scaniornis

Thus, it would seem to have been a native of the prehistoric North Sea, which at that time covered part of today's Germany and France, and sometimes was cut off from the Tethys and Atlantic Oceans, sometimes connected to them, and sometimes even to the Turgai Sea.

Sepiola rondeleti

Sepiola rondeleti, also known as the Dwarf Bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, including the Strait of Sicily, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Levantine Sea.

Sinagoga

Sinagoga is linked with the LBRA1 which runs almost entirely by the cliffs near the Atlantic and connects with Paúl along with Janela and Ponta do Sol.

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).

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 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.

Treaty of Versailles

Both the German Empire and Great Britain were dependent on imports of food and raw materials, primarily from the Americas, which had to be shipped across the Atlantic Ocean.

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.