Mid Atlantic

Mid Atlantic can refer to:

  • The middle of the Atlantic Ocean
  • Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a tectonic plate boundary
  • Mid-Atlantic states, a region in the United States
  • Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference, an athletic league in the United States
  • Mid-Atlantic English, a mixture of American and British usage

Famous quotes containing the words mid and/or atlantic:

    “Semi-Saracenic architecture, sustaining itself as if by miracle in mid air; glittering in the red sunlight with a hundred oriels, minarets, and pinnacles; and seeming the phantom handiwork, conjointly, of the Sylphs,... the Fairies,... the Genii, and ... the Gnomes.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)