Atlantic Ocean
About Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 square kilometers (32,870,000 sq mi). It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for separating the New World of the Americas from the Old World of Afro-Eurasia.
On the show — 15 mentions total
He decided in 1998 he was going to walk the world. He started in Chile, and the idea was to end up back in Hull. It was going to take him 10 years — he should have been back in 2010. He's still walking. Did he not realize that the Atlantic Ocean is in between those two places?
from No Such Thing As Aunt Bessie In A Red Citroën Picasso, 2025-11-13 at 00:48:14 · read transcript
Other times Atlantic Ocean came up
He was incredible. It was weird that he was so into this very specific trick for his entire life, like three decades basically. He claimed in 1898 he was actually going to walk across the Atlantic Ocean which would have been a much better fact if he had actually done it. It's unbelievable he thought he could do this. He was planning to walk to Paris, I think because he wanted to walk to the Paris Exposition or something but he said he was inspired to do this when he was giving a demonstration of his walking on water shoes on a beach in Florida and he got sucked out to sea by a current and the boat that went to rescue him capsized so they couldn't rescue him and everyone was like, oh god we've lost him, he's gone forever.
446: No Such Thing As A Ninja Wearing Clogs, 2022-09-30 · listen
It's a tiny little island. just between the US and Canada. It's positioning it's crucial because... It's a land border most of that, isn't it? Yeah. Famously. It's on like if you sort of continue the border, basically. It's in the Atlantic Ocean. Got it. A sort of... Between Maine and... You know... Exactly, between Maine and New Brunswick. So it's disputed because both countries want ownership of this tiny, uninhabited island.
No Such Thing As An Arm-Wrestling Chihuahua, 2022-07-15 · listen
Just on the results they got, because it is quite abstract and it's very sort of, you know, there's people like posh shows in the countryside and actually lots of them weren't posh, lots of them were Rennes, women's Royal Naval Service who were getting on with the like basic work every single day. Some of the things they did, for example, they worked out the location of every milk cow in the Atlantic Ocean.
515: No Such Thing As A Reindeer Stockbroker, 2024-01-25 · listen
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