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[[File:Arctic Circle map bottom left (BOTC).jpg|thumb|left|Greenland on a map of the Arctic Circle. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')]] | |||
The [[Great Auk]] lived in the North Atlantic until [[1844]], when it was [[hunt]]ed to [[extinction]] by [[human]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Last Dodo (novel)}}) | The [[Great Auk]] lived in the North Atlantic until [[1844]], when it was [[hunt]]ed to [[extinction]] by [[human]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Last Dodo (novel)}}) | ||
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The North Atlantic Ocean or northern Atlantic Ocean, simply the North Atlantic, was situated to the east of North America and west of the British Isles. (PROSE: The Americas, TV: The Lie of the Land) It included the islands of Greenland (PROSE: Who Discovered America? [+]Loading...["Who Discovered America? (short story)"]) and Iceland. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"])
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The Great Auk lived in the North Atlantic until 1844, when it was hunted to extinction by humans. (PROSE: The Last Dodo [+]Loading...["The Last Dodo (novel)"])
In 1943, during the Second World War, U-boats operated in the North Atlantic. (TV: The Curse of Fenric) It was the namesake of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, developed in the late 1940s after the war. (PROSE: Endgame)
