What makes the Atlantic interesting?

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I haven't investigated it very much, but I always thought the Atlantic was interesting since it is the only ocean with a roughly hourglass shape. The North and South are broad, and there's the roughly equatorial choke point between Brazil and Sierra Leone. The Pacific and Indo oceans are both fairly open with all their land at the edges.

The South Sandwich Trench is another subduction zone (technically Southern Ocean but Atlantic Adjacent). The whole Scotia plate I've always thought was cool since it kind of "extends" the basing of the Pacific side of South America into the Atlantic Side.

In the end though, it is all one giant World Ocean and your remains will reach every part of it.
 
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