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  Encyclopedia: Atlantic (disambiguation)
Disambiguation The worlds oceans as seen from the South Pacific Ocean (from Okeanos, Greek for river, the ancient Greeks noticed that a strong current flowed off Gibraltar, and assumed it was a great river); covers almost three quarters (71%) of the surface of the Earth, and nearly half of the...
Bounded by the Americas on the west and Europe and Africa on the east, the Atlantic is linked to the Pacific Ocean by the Arctic Ocean on the north and the Drake Passage on the south.
The climate of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent land areas is influenced by the temperatures of the surface waters and water currents as well as the winds blowing across the waters.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Atlantic-(disambiguation)   (756 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Atlantic Beach (disambiguation)
Atlantic, Pennsylvania Atlantic is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 43.
Atlantic City, Wyoming Atlantic City is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 39.
Atlantic Puffin The Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) is an seabird that feeds primarily by diving for fish.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Atlantic-Beach-(disambiguation)   (226 words)

  
 Atlantic City (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlantic City (song) by Bruce Springsteen released in 1982
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlantic_City_(disambiguation)   (98 words)

  
 The Ultimate Atlantic City, New Jersey - American History Information Guide and Reference
Atlantic City is governed under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) system of municipal government.
Atlantic City became a popular beach destination because of its proximity to Philadelphia.
The streets of Atlantic City are also used in the American version of the boardgame Monopoly.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Atlantic_City   (1014 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Tropical cyclone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the north Atlantic, a distinct hurricane season occurs from June 1 to November 30, sharply peaking in early September.
In the Atlantic ocean, such tropical-derived cyclones of higher latitudes can be violent and may occasionally remain at hurricane-force wind speeds when they reach Europe as a European windstorm.
Hurricane Mitch during the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season caused severe flooding and mudslides in Honduras, killing at least 10,000 people and changing the landscape enough that entirely new maps of the nation were needed.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Tropical_cyclone   (4958 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: New Jersey Pine Barrens
The area is also notable for its populations of rare pygmy Pitch Pines and other plant species that depend on fire to reproduce (fire is very frequent in the Pine Barrens).
Despite being near metropolitan areas such as New York City, Philadelphia, and Atlantic City, and the fact that the Garden State Parkway and Atlantic City Expressway run directly through it, the Pine Barrens remains largely rural and undeveloped.
The Garden State Parkway is a 172-mile-long limited-access toll parkway that stretches the length of New Jersey from the New York Thruway at Montvale, NJ to Cape May at the southern tip of the state.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Jersey-Pine-Barrens   (2271 words)

  
 Station Information - Newfoundland (disambiguation)
The primary referent of the name Newfoundland is a large island on Canada's Atlantic coast.
This island is part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, which was federally referred to as Newfoundland until 2001.
The word 'Newfoundland' is pronounced by Newfoundlanders with the second syllable slurred and the accent on the last, as 'Newfenland', so as to rhyme with the word 'understand'.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/newfoundland__disambiguation_.html   (142 words)

  
 hurricanes Bio, Pictures, News and RSS Feeds at BlinkBits.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Over the North Atlantic Ocean, tropical systems are steered generally westward by the east-to-west winds on the south side of the Bermuda High, a persistent high-pressure area over the North Atlantic.
Currently, in the Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific regions, feminine and masculine names during a given season are assigned alternately, still in alphabetic order.
However, the large amount of destruction caused by recent Atlantic tropical cyclones such as Hurricane Katrina has caused a substantial increase in the public interest in global warming and concerns that global climatic change may have played a role in these events.
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 Hurricane Ivan -
It formed on September 2 as a tropical depression, became a tropical storm on September 3, and a hurricane on September 5.
With minimum recorded central pressure at 910 millibars, Ivan is ranked as the ninth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, as of 2005.
On September 18, remnants of Ivan drifted off the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast into the Atlantic Ocean, and the low pressure disturbance continued to dump rain on the east coast of the United States.
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 Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The following pages are disambiguation pages linked here in order to avoid being shown in the list of orphaned articles.
Most of these links should point elsewhere - to properly disambiguated pages - and so the automatically generated page is a useful aid in finding those links so that they can be changed.
N: Napoleon (disambiguation) - Nauplius - NCS - NEA - Nemesis - Neptune - Netscape - New World Symphony - NF - NFL - NFS - Nicephorus - Nicholas I - Nicholas Ridley - Nike - Nine-eleven - Nirvana (disambiguation) - NLA - NLP - No More Mr.
www.freetemplate.ws /wi/wikipedia:links-to-disambiguating-pages.html   (1121 words)

  
 Atlantic City (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Atlantic City (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Atlantic City (disambiguation) contains research on
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Atlantic_City_%28disambiguation%29   (95 words)

  
 cars - Tropical cyclone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In meteorology, a tropical cyclone (or tropical storm, typhoon or hurricane, depending on strength and location) is a type of low-pressure system which generally forms in the tropics.
hurricane in the North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, and the South Pacific Ocean east of 160°E
However, three tropical cyclones have been observed here — a weak tropical storm in 1991 off the coast of Africa, Cyclone Catarina (sometimes also referred to as Aldonça), which made landfall in Brazil in 2004, and a smaller storm in January of 2004, east of Salvador, Brazil as a Category 1 hurricane.
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 Tropical cyclone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
hurricane in the North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean east of the dateline and the Pacific Ocean east of 160°E
In the UK and Europe some severe north-east Atlantic cyclonic depressions referred to as "hurricanes " even although rarely originate in the tropics.
On March 26 2004 Cyclone Catarina became the first-ever hurricane observed in south Atlantic Ocean.
www.freeglossary.com /Cyclonic   (1267 words)

  
 Atlantic City (disambiguation): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Atlantic City (disambiguation)
Atlantic City (disambiguation): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Atlantic City (disambiguation)
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tropical cyclone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hurricane Mitch during the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season caused severe flooding and mudslides in Honduras, killing about 18,000 people and changing the landscape enough that entirely new maps of the nation were needed.
The deadliest Atlantic storm on record was the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed between 20,000 and 30,000 people in the Antilles.
Camille was the only storm to actually strike land while at that intensity, making it, with 190 mph (305 km/h) sustained winds and 210 mph (335 km/h) gusts, the strongest tropical cyclone of record to ever hit land.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tropical_cyclone   (4843 words)

  
 Hurricane Ivan - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Hurricane Ivan was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane, and the fourth major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
With minimum recorded central pressure at 910 millibars, Ivan is ranked as the sixth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record.
On September 18, remnants of Ivan drifted off the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States into the Atlantic ocean and the low pressure disturbance continued to dump rain on the east coast of the United States.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Hurricane_Ivan   (1913 words)

  
 Saint Helena - Wikitravel
Saint Helena (island), a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
If you arrived here by following a link from another page you can help by correcting it, so that it points to the appropriate disambiguated page.
This page was last modified 11:19, 18 Jul 2005 by Wikitravel user Huttite.
wikitravel.org /en/Saint_Helena   (70 words)

  
 Marsh - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This article is about marsh, a type of wetland.
For other uses of the word marsh see marsh (disambiguation).
In geography, a marsh is a type of wetland, featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Marsh   (164 words)

  
 Iceland (disambiguation)
Iceland - a European country located in the northern Atlantic Ocean
Iceland (supermarket) - a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom and Ireland
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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 Atlantic (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Atlantic (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 13:50, 12 December 2005.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Atlantic (disambiguation) contains research on
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Atlantic_%28disambiguation%29   (159 words)

  
 atlantic city - OneLook Dictionary Search
Atlantic City : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Atlantic City : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
Phrases that include atlantic city: atlantic city casino resorts, atlantic city expressway, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city nj, atlantic city surf
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 Blue Marsh Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This article is about Marsb, a type of wetland.
For other uses of the word Marsj see Matsh (disambiguation).
In geography, a marsh is a type of wetland, featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly withlow-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water.
www.super8filmmaking.com /tail/18896-blue-marsh-lake.html   (679 words)

  
 World War 1 and 2 - Hurricane Charley (disambiguation)
The name Charley has been used for several tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.
1980's Hurricane Charley - looped across the north Atlantic Ocean without causing any reported damage.
1992's Hurricane Charley - drifted over the central Atlantic Ocean without affecting land.
www.worldwardiary.com /history/Hurricane_Charley_%28disambiguation%29   (127 words)

  
 United States - Fundamentals.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The United States has land borders with Canada and Mexico, and territorial water boundaries with Canada, Russia and the Bahamas.
It is otherwise bounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea.
Forty-eight of the states—often referred to as the continental, contiguous or Lower 48 states—are located in a single region between Canada and Mexico.
www.fundamentals.com.au /United-States   (6303 words)

  
 Hurricane Arlene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name Arlene has been used for nine tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.
1967's Hurricane Arlene - curved up the central Atlantic Ocean without affecting land
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Arlene   (252 words)

  
 CityBloc.com - United States of America Facts and Figures
The United States shares land borders with Canada (to the north) and Mexico (to the south), and territorial water boundaries with Canada, Russia, the Bahamas, and numerous smaller nations.
It is otherwise bounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, in the west; the Arctic Ocean, in the northernmost areas; and the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea, in the eastern and southeastern areas.
Forty-eight of the states are in the single region between Canada and Mexico; this group is referred to, with varying precision and formality, as the continental or contiguous United States, sometimes abbreviated CONUS, and as the Lower 48.
www.citybloc.com   (7084 words)

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