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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.

Example Sentences

Laying a cable across the deep and stormy North Atlantic would prove far more difficult.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

In December, the UK and Norway signed a pact to hunt Russian submarines in the North Atlantic to protect undersea cables.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

And in eastern Estonia and neighboring Latvia, thousands of soldiers from across the North Atlantic Treaty Organization conduct an annual large-scale military exercise with heavy military equipment—and hundreds of drones.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

It helps move heat through the Atlantic Ocean, shaping temperatures, weather patterns, and sea levels, especially around the North Atlantic region.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

Just five years old, she and her sister ship, the SS Washington, were the first large North Atlantic liners to be built in America since 1905 and the largest that Americans had ever built.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown