Week fourteen saw 3,873 pages added to last weeks 39,314 for a total distanced travelled of 43,187 kilometers. Which means I'm back swimming in the Atlantic Ocean! Currently floating at "53 N 40 W" until I learn how many more leagues I can swim next week.
So, what can we learn about the Atlantic Ocean from Wikipedia today?
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres (41.1 million square miles). It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface.
The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between the Americas to the west, and Eurasia and Africa to the east.
On average, the Atlantic is the saltiest of the world's major oceans. Hope I don't end up a pickled centipede if I have to tread water here to long!
The Atlantic Ocean appears to be the second youngest of all five oceans. Evidence indicates that it did not exist prior to 130 million years ago, when the continents that formed from the breakup of the ancestral super continent, Pangaea, were being rifted apart by the process of seafloor spreading.
Which means we centipedes are older then the Atlantic Ocean as we showed up 420 million years in the late Silurian period. That means us centipedes are much older than dinosaurs and we're still around as ourselves too! (No turning into birds for us!)
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