Transatlantic

Transatlantic is an adjective describing something that spans or crosses the Atlantic Ocean.

Transatlantic (or Trans-Atlantic or TransAtlantic) may refer to:

Travel

• Transatlantic crossing – a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by sea vessel
• Transatlantic flight – a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by aircraft

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

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

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

Literature

• Trans-Atlantyk a 1953 novel by Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz
• TransAtlantic (novel), a 2013 book by Colum McCann

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
• Transatlanticism, the fourth LP from Death Cab for Cutie

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)

See also

• Trance Atlantic

Compare

• Trans-Tasman, refers to the Tasman Sea