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The pass starts from just north-east of the Island of Newfoundland and Labrador | Newfoundland over the North Atlantic Ocean to central Africa, over South Sudan.
) The equator subdivides it into the North Atlantic Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean.
The Atlantic Ocean is bounded on the west by North and South America.
The South Atlantic Ocean has an additional submarine ridge, the Walvis Ridge.
The largest South Atlantic basins are the Angola, Cape, Argentina, and Brazil basins.
The North and South Atlantic central waters make up the surface.
The Coriolis effect circulates North Atlantic water in a clockwise direction, whereas South Atlantic water circulates counter-clockwise.
* In 1922, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho were the first to cross the South Atlantic in an airship.
* In 1931, Bert Hinkler made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight across the South Atlantic in an aircraft.
The Aethiopian Sea, Ethiopic Ocean or Ethiopian Ocean ( Okeanos Aithiopos ), is an old name for what is now called the South Atlantic Ocean, which is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia.
The haliotid family has a worldwide distribution, along the coastal waters of every continent, except the Atlantic coast of South America, the Caribbean, and the East Coast of the United States.
It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.
In exchange for building the tunnel, the City of Brooklyn granted the B & J permission to operate its steam locomotives on Atlantic Street west of Fifth Avenue ( then Parmentier's Garden / Gowanus Lane ), all the way to Brooklyn's South Ferry ( the present location of Brooklyn's Pier 7 ).
The granitic South Mountain rises to a somewhat higher elevation and shelters the valley from the climate of the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100 kilometres further south on the province's South Shore.
* 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola ; the first to be documented by satellites.
* The South Atlantic and Subantarctic Islands
country code-55 ; landing point for a number of submarine cables, including Atlantis 2, that provide direct links to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ), 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic Ocean region east ), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station ( 2007 )
A relatively dry tropical savanna, the Sahel extends beyond the borders of Burkina Faso, from the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, and borders the Sahara to its north and the fertile region of the Sudan to the South.
* South temperate Atlantic

South and economic
Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.
The suppositions in the previous illustration might be sufficiently altered by establishing a connection between general company practice and local practice in the South, and by establishing such direct connection between the practice and the economic well-being of stores located in New York and general company policy.
Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).
An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.
Our leadership in a wide economic boycott of South Africa would be not only in accord, it seems, with the moral conscience of America, not to be denied because we also as a people have widespread injustice in the relations of the races in our own country, but also in accord with our law, U.S. Code Title 19, Section 1307, which forbids the importation of goods made by forced or convict labor.
Numerous institutions for social and economic development were established in South Asia and in East Africa.
In light of the economic gap between rich and poor countries, movement adherents claim “ free trade ” without measures in place to protect the environment and the health and well being of workers will contribute only to the strengthening the power of industrialized nations ( often termed the " North " in opposition to the developing world's " South ").
Latin America and Caribbean ) created alter-globalization organizations as economic blocs Mercosur and Unasur, political community CELAC or Bank of the South which supporting development of Third World countries without restrictions like IMF or World Bank.
Brazilian foreign policy has recently aimed to strengthen ties with other South American countries, engage in multilateral diplomacy through the United Nations and the Organization of American States, and act at times as a countervailing force to U. S. political and economic influence in Latin America.
The economy of Chile is ranked as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank, and is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations, leading Latin American nations in human development, competitiveness, income per capita, globalization, economic freedom, and low perception of corruption.
There is no economic activity ( except for a significant but as yet unquantified charter fishing and diving industry ), and only a staff of three or four people to run the meteorological station on Willis Island ( South Islet ), established in 1921.
Costa Rica major economic resources are its fertile land and frequent rainfall, its well-educated population, and its location in the Central American isthmus, which provides easy access to North and South American markets and direct ocean access to the European and Asian Continents.
Work has begun — bilaterally and within the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe since 1999 — on political and economic cooperation in the region.
Cahill suggests that the social structure engineered by colonial Spaniards, with limpieza de sangre, in South America and New Spain, one based on race, ethnicity and economic condition was a caste system.
However, slavery was a social and economic institution, particularly in eleven states in the American South, such that a variety of organizations were established advocating the movement of black people from the United States to locations where they would enjoy greater freedom and equality.
But the positives – the stability in South Africa, the adherence to well-balanced economic policies, fighting inflation, doing all the right things in order to lay the basis and the foundation for sustained economic growth – are in place.
The first was the American Civil War, which caused severe damage to some economic sectors in the South, including the Gulf Coast.
The population of Italy almost doubled during the twentieth century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North, a phenomenon which happened as a consequence of the Italian economic miracle of the 1950-60s.
In the early decades of the new kingdom, the lack of an effective land reform, heavy taxes and other economic measures imposed on the South, together with the removal of protectionist tariffs on agricultural goods, made the situation virtually impossible for many tenant farmers, and small business and land owners.
An example of a recently formed economic IGO is the Bank of the South.

South and system
`` Billions of American dollars, not only from capital investors but also from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers '', this author states, `` are being poured into South Africa to support a system dedicated to the oppression, the persecution, and the almost diabolical exploitation of 12 million people the color of whose skins happens not to be white ''.
The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.
* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters ( 13 inches ) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Cyrillic numerals were a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, used by South and East Slavic peoples.
High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.
Phillip was a far-sighted governor, who soon saw that New South Wales would need a civil administration and a system for emancipating the convicts.
Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.
He subsequently expanded the system to include the rest of South America in 1981, and the world in 1989.
Essentially, every country that was colonised at some time by England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom uses common law except those that were formerly colonised by other nations, such as Quebec ( which follows the law of France in part ), South Africa and Sri Lanka ( which follow Roman Dutch law ), where the prior civil law system was retained to respect the civil rights of the local colonists.
South of the Chadian border, the koros divide the Lake Chad Basin from the Ubangi-Zaire river system.
It elects one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system of election, and is part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects six MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
The Caste system in Sri Lanka is a division of society into strata, influenced by the classic Aryan Varnas of North India and the Dravida Jāti system found in South India.
Recent examples of nations which have undergone democratic reforms but have not adopted the FPTP system include South Africa, almost all of the former Eastern bloc nations, Russia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The South African financial rand system was abolished with effect from 13 March 1995.
The financial rand system was instituted on 1 September 1985 in an attempt to control the large outflows of capital from South Africa at that time.
However, following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, South Africa experienced significant outflows of foreign exchange on the capital account of the Balance of Payments and instituted an additional level of capital controls, known as the Blocked Rand system.
In other words creating a closed loop system that did not create a claim on the foreign exchange reserves of the Third Reich, or in this case South Africa.
Another complication exists with South Africa, in which the President is in fact elected by the National Assembly ( legislature ) and is thus similar, in principle, to a head of government in a parliamentary system but also, in addition, is recognized as the nation's head of state.
Hawala (, meaning transfer ), ( also known as hundi ) is an informal value transfer system based on the performance and honor of a huge network of money brokers, which are primarily located in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and South Asia.
In South Asia, it appears to have developed into a fully-fledged money market instrument, which was only gradually replaced by the instruments of the formal banking system in the first half of the 20th century.

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