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  2. North Atlantic Gyre - Wikipedia

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    The North Atlantic Gyre is one of five major ocean gyres. The North Atlantic garbage patch is a garbage patch of man-made marine debris found floating within the North Atlantic Gyre, originally documented in 1972. [22] A 22-year research study conducted by the Sea Education Association estimates the patch to be hundreds of kilometers across ...

  3. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...

  4. The New York Times Crossword - Wikipedia

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    Android. Release. February 15, 1942; 82 years ago. ( 1942-02-15) Genre (s) Word game. Mode (s) Single-player. The New York Times Crossword (marketed as The Crossword) is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times as part of The New York Times Games, online on the newspaper's website, syndicated to more than 300 ...

  5. Firth of Clyde - Wikipedia

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    ] The firth is sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre peninsula, which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire. The Kilbrannan Sound is a large arm of the Firth of Clyde, separating the Kintyre Peninsula from the Isle of Arran. Within the Firth of Clyde is another major island – the Isle of Bute. Given its strategic location ...

  6. Graveyard of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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    Graveyard of the Atlantic. Graveyard of the Atlantic is a nickname for the treacherous waters and area of numerous shipwrecks off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States, which are due to the coast's shifting sands and inlets. To a lesser degree, this nickname has also been applied to Sable Island off of Nova Scotia, Canada, as well as ...

  7. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

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    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

  8. List of countries and territories bordering the Atlantic ...

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    This is a list of states and territories (in italics) with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean (including the Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas). Asia [ edit ] Cyprus

  9. List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean - Wikipedia

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    The IHO limits of the Atlantic Ocean. This is a list of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the largest of which is Greenland. Note that the definition of the ocean used by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) excludes the seas, gulfs, bays, etc., bordering the ocean itself.