In 1502, as Europeans hungrily looked to the vast new continent across the Atlantic Ocean ... 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama ...

Tharp’s map provided some of the necessary missing evidence. If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...

The nearest ocean to the UK is the Atlantic Ocean. It stretches from Europe to North and South America, and is the second largest of the five oceans. The water in the oceans is constantly moving ...