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Transatlantic travel played a major role in the expansion of Western civilization into the Americas.

It is the Atlantic that separates the " Old World " from the " New World ".

In modern times, some idioms refer to the ocean in a humorously diminutive way as the Pond, describing both the geographical and cultural divide between North America and Europe, in particular between the English-speaking nations of both continents.

Many British people refer to the United States and Canada as " across the pond ", and vice versa.