North Atlantic

The location of the North Atlantic. (TV: The Lie of the Land)

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)"])

History

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)