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:

    There, on the mountain and the sky,
    On all the tragic scene they stare.
    One asks for mournful melodies;
    Accomplished fingers begin to play.
    Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
    Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)