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:

    “We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Beyond this island bound
    By a thin sea of flesh
    And a bone coast ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)