Transatlantic
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Transatlantic is an adjective describing something that spans or crosses the Atlantic Ocean.
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Transatlantic (or Trans-Atlantic or TransAtlantic) may specifically refer to:
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[edit] Travel
- Transatlantic crossing – a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by sea vessel
- Transatlantic flight – a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by aircraft
[edit] Technology
- Transatlantic telegraph cable – first connected in 1858
- Transatlantic telephone cable – first connected in 1956
- Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey – an astronomical survey conducted by observatories in North America and on the Canary Islands
- Transatlantic tunnel – a theoretical tunnel connecting North America and Europe
[edit] Social, political and economic activity
- Transatlantic relations – the sum of political and social ties across the Atlantic Ocean throughout history
- Triangular trade – from the 16th to 19th centuries
- Transatlantic slave trade – from the 16th to 19th centuries
- Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund – a fund facilitating the travel of well-known members of the science fiction fandom
- Transatlantic Free Trade Area – a proposed free trade agreement between European and North American countries
- Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue – a coalition of US and European CEOs
- Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue – a forum of US and EU consumer organizations
- Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue – a formalized dialogue between US and EU legislators
[edit] Music
- Transatlantic Records – an independent record label active in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s
- Transatlantic (band) – a progressive rock supergroup
- Transatlantic (opera), a 1928 opera by George Antheil
[edit] Film
- Transatlantic (film), a 1931 film that won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction
- Transatlantic (1998 film)
- Transatlantic Pictures, a film production company formed and jointly owned by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein that existed 1948–1950
[edit] Other
- Trans-Atlantic English, another name for Mid-Atlantic English
- Transatlantic (shipping company), formally Transatlantic Rederi AB, of Skarhamn, Sweden charters a fleet of support vessels, see Vidar Viking
- Rederi AB Transatlantic, a Swedish shipping company (1904–1994), which established direct traffic between Sweden and North America
- MV TransAtlantic, a container ship owned and operated by TransAtlantic Lines
- TransAtlantic Lines, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based shipping company
- One of the names of the fully rigged ship Mersey (1894 ship)
[edit] See also
- Trans-Atlantyk a novel by Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz
- Transatlanticism, the fourth LP from Death Cab for Cutie
- Trance Atlantic
[edit] Compare
- Trans-Tasman, refers to the Tasman Sea
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