The title alone of the Atlantic are already reflected its enormous scale.It is part of the World Ocean and contains significant reserves of water resources.For its size it is the second (after the Pacific) place.It provides a quarter of all water on the planet, and it's a lot - 25%.Impressive its huge area, is about 91 million sq. M.km.No less significant amount of water that was at last count 329 700 000. Km³.This figure, the average depth of the ocean is considered to be 3 600 meters.The salinity of the waters of the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 35%.Today we know that the scientists made measurements and as a result have established a more accurate data showing that the average depth of the ocean is equal to 4022 meters.
its name Atlantic Ocean was not by chance, there are several versions of its origin.The first says that it is so named in honor of the legendary continent of Atlantis, the second is based on the fact that the name comes from the name of the hero of ancient myths - Atlanta, which is supported on the shoulders of the whole sky.We know even the geographic location of the mythical hero - in the most extreme point of the western Mediterranean.
great scientific interest is the sea of the Atlantic Ocean, the area of which - about 14.69 million square kilometers, which is approximately 16% of the total area of the ocean.By the seas and bays are: Bristol Channel, Irish, Baltic, North Sea, as well as Finland, Bothnia and the Gulf of Riga.If the list of the Atlantic Sea, it and the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay and the sea such as the Balearic, Alboran, Ligurian, Adriatic, Tyrrhenian, Ionian, Aegean, Marmara, Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Gulf of Guinea.The list goes on, as the sea Riser-Larsen, Lazarev, Sargasso e Weddell Sea, the Caribbean, Gulf of Maine, Mexico, St. Lawrence and Labrador, the Scotia Sea also belong here.
Sea Atlantic Ocean have indirect contact with their main source, it is carried out through a number of bays and the sea located, so here there are various unique to these regions specific climatic conditions, as well as the contrast can be traced diverse species of flora and fauna.
Mediterranean stretched between Asia, Europe and Africa.Dardanelles is in the northeast is connected to the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus to the Black.From the southeast it connects through the Suez Canal with a unique Red Sea.2500 thousand kilometers - is the area of the Mediterranean, while its volume of 3.839 million cubic kilometers.
Baltic Sea communicates with the ocean because of the North and the Black by neighboring waters of the Marmara Sea and the Mediterranean.Baltic Sea - The inland, its area - 385 thousand. Km, the average depth - 86 meters.Modern shape it received about 2.5 thousand years ago.The volume of water in it is 21700 km3.
The sea is part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Black Sea landlocked.In the southwest, it is through the Bosphorus strait connects with the sea like the Marmara.Its area - about 413.5 thousand. Km and an average depth of 1000 m (the maximum depth is 2245 m), the volume of water in the sea - 537 thous. Km.cu.
For many centuries formed a very important life-saving phenomenon, such as the Gulf Stream.It originates in the south-eastern North America.The width of the flow of the Atlantic Ocean - 75 km and its speed is 6-30 km / h.It is characterized by a warm upper layer of water with a temperature of 26 degrees and a speed, which is subject to such limits - 6-30 km / h.The warm currents of the Atlantic Ocean provide the European states, which are located on its shores, mild and pleasant climate, very comfortable to stay.The heat, which releases the Gulf Stream is equivalent to the amount of heat that is capable vyrabotat1 million nuclear power plants.
