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North Atlantic Tracks for the westbound crossing of February 24, 2017, with the new RLAT Tracks shown in blue. The North Atlantic Tracks, officially titled the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS), are a structured set of transatlantic flight routes that stretch from eastern North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean, within the North Atlantic airspace region.
The Twelve-Mile Circle is an approximately circular arc that forms most of the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania. It is a combination of different circular arcs that have been feathered together. [1] [2] It is nominally a circle with a variable radius of approximately 12 miles (19 km) centered in the town of New Castle, Delaware. [3]
Two Atlantic City Line trains perform a scheduled meet at a passing siding in Cherry Hill. The line was originally double-tracked but is now a single-track operation, with 5,000-foot (1,500 m) passing sidings along its length. The Atlantic City Rail Terminal incorporates a fueling facility and trains are fueled in between midday runs.
The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada. [1][2][3][4] The eastern route along the Arctic coasts of Norway and Siberia is accordingly called the Northeast Passage (NEP).
North Atlantic Track Agreement. The North Atlantic Track Agreement was an agreement in November 1898 [1] among thirteen passenger steamship companies to use a set series of trans-Atlantic routes that stretched from the northeast of North America to western Europe for the Atlantic crossing. Following the tracks was recommended but not compulsory.
North Atlantic Ocean. Coordinates. 37°24′N 60°00′W / 37.400°N 60.000°W / 37.400; -60.000. The New England Seamounts is a chain of over twenty underwater extinct volcanic mountains known as seamounts. [1] This chain is located off the coast of Massachusetts in the Atlantic Ocean and extends over 1,000 km from the edge of ...
Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge (a divergent or constructive plate boundary) located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world. In the North Atlantic, the ridge separates the North American from the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate, north and south of the ...
The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a 900-mile (1,400 km) escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States. [2] Much of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line passes through areas where no evidence of faulting is present. The fall line marks the geologic boundary of hard metamorphosed terrain ...