Atlantic Coast

The Atlantic Coast is any coast fronting the Atlantic Ocean. The term differentiates the coasts of countries or continents with coastlines on more than one body of water, such as North America, South America, Africa and Europe.

The term may refer to:

Regions
  • East Coast of the United States
  • Gulf Coast of the United States
  • Caribbean Region of Colombia
Transport
  • Atlantic Coast Airlines, an airline based in the United States.
  • Atlantic Coast Express, a former express passenger train in England.

Famous quotes containing the words atlantic and/or coast:

    “Obscurest night involv’d the sky,
    Th’ Atlantic billows roar’d,
    When such a destin’d wretch as I,
    Wash’d headlong from on board,
    Of friends, of hope, of all bereft,
    His floating home for ever left.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “And ladies with their nails prepared for tea
    And sunken barques that coast the shores of hell
    And old men vacant of propriety
    Have faintly rung a next-door neighbor’s bell.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)