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• a variation of North Atlantic Ocean.

North Atlantic

American  

[nawrth at-lan-tik] / ˈnɔrθ ætˈlæn tɪk /

noun

1. the region of the world that lies in the Northern Hemisphere of the Atlantic Ocean, including all the coastal countries, islands, and archipelagos located there.

   As a biologist based in Newfoundland, she has a particular interest in the flora and fauna of the North Atlantic.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the region of the world that lies in the Northern Hemisphere of the Atlantic Ocean, often specifically to the North Atlantic Ocean itself.

   The most active time for North Atlantic hurricane development seems to be from mid-August to mid-October.

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Analysts have called Syrskiy a micromanager who prefers top-down decision-making to the horizontal structures promoted by today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization militaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Across the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization, militaries are seeking to boost supplies of guncotton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

From the start of his career, he says, he was interested in what ancient climate records revealed about abrupt changes in the North Atlantic currents.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

But south of Greenland, part of the North Atlantic has stubbornly refused to follow the global pattern.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

In 1845, Franklin took two Royal Navy ships, Erebus and Terror, and a crew of 129 into the Arctic to search for a sea route between the North Atlantic and the Pacific.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong