Ocean

North Atlantic Ocean

The North Atlantic is part of the Atlantic, the second largest ocean basin, which covers roughly 20 percent of the Earth’s surface and lies between the Americas and Europe and Africa.

Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the North Atlantic Ocean label sits at 29.2° N, 37.3° W, in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

Also labelled Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Sargasso Sea — about 2,200 km west
• North Sea — about 4,300 km north-east
• Amazonas — about 4,600 km south-west
• Amazon Basin — about 4,800 km south-west

Play with it

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