Mid-Atlantic Ridge

played a small role. Advances and voyages before Columbus paved the way for the seemingly momentous journey of 1492. It is often forgotten that Columbus was not the first to travel across the Atlantic Ocean. In the year 1000 the Vikings made the trip from Greenland to Newfoundland, across the Northern Atlantic Ocean, settling in Vinland. Although little is known about their trip, it is interesting to note that a voyage very similar to Columbus’s had already been…

Iceland is located in the North Atlantic sea, near the arctic circle. Iceland is 40,000 square miles large, which is approximately the size of Virginia and Kentucky combined. Only around 20 percent of the island is inhabited, and it is smallest country in Europe based on population (Geography). Some refer to the island as the land of fire and ice due to the presence of both glaciers and volcanoes (Gunnarsdóttir, Nanna, 2016). Volcanoes can even be found beneath glaciers. Glaciers cover more than…

Atlantic City, in modern times, is regarded by many to be a failing city. However, as its rather famous status suggests, the city was not always so bad. At one time, economic forces like tourism propelled the city to amazing heights. The city’s infrastructure, community, and industries all lead to a bustling economy. The condition of the city is not a random draw, of course; it has ups and downs that correlate with the success of its economy. Seemingly, the level of economic success that the…

strengths and weaknesses in their physiography that make up each individual territory and separate it from the rest. The geographical position of Europe is very important for the fact it is connected to Asia and the terrestrial wide exit into the Atlantic Ocean. Europe takes part of the road crossing from East to West and North to South to all terrestrial seas and air location. It has a coastline 65,993 km and geographical refraction creation of numerous peninsulas and bay islands that connect…

researching the landscape of North and South America. Statues and walls were also found showing Chinese materials as well as sunken junks (Chinese boats). Due to the location of these ships and artifacts, China must have been all over America, from Atlantic to Pacific. The Junks basically support the fact that they were trading with the natives. Chinese artifacts have been found all over the Americas which once again proves that they had trading and social interactions with Native Americans.…

Two of the United States worst natural disasters in money lost and life lost has been form hurricanes. The to hurricanes that steps up from the rest have been hurricane Sandy in 2012 that hit the northern east coast and hurricane Katrina that hit the southern east coast in 2005. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that is rotating low pressure system that has organized thunder storms with no front boundary separating two air masses of different densities. Tropical cyclones with sustained surface…

As I looked out at the gorgeous light blue Caribbean Sea I saw a large white boat in the distance with a rope connected to a parachute sailing over it with multiple people in the boat. My family and I were standing on the pure white Dominican Republic sand waiting for our turn to take the dinghy out and meet the parasail boat for our first experience parasailing ever. The sky was as clear and blue as could be, with absolutely no clouds and the sun beaming on each and every one of the vacationers…

It’s the same routine over and over. Traveling constantly, shining a light everywhere I go for everyone to see. They go on their happy way while I do the same thing over and over, day after day. But it is what I am meant to do, travel around the world and see countless places and people with endless possibilities. I have so much space around me to move and a perfect view of the world that keeps growing every second. Around and around, seeing the same things that end up changing. First my…

b. A belief that the spirits of the African slaves might be haunting the ships and planes that pass their way. III. The geography A. The Devil 's Triangle is located in the Atlantic Ocean meeting at the points of Miami, San Juan, and Bermuda. B. This mysterious triangle covers an area of 440,000 miles of the Atlantic ocean, however, the deadly effects can occur outside of the triangle as well covering a larger area. C. Controversially, according to the statistics, predictions have stated…

Readers are taken on an extraordinary journey at the sea with no land in sight. The vessel aboard the open water symbolizes Coleridge’s train of imagination far away from the realisms of life. The albatross was initially considered a good luck charm because he once led the ship to safety from the icy antarctic water. So after the mariner kills the albatross, the crew is scared as they are convinced the crime will solely result in penalty by the power of the sea. The crew is clearly proven…