Hasselwood Rock
Hasselwood Rock is a skerry adjacent to Rockall in the North Atlantic. Position and characteristics The upper part of Hasselwood Rock is the destroyed cone of an extinct volcano, some north of the larger outcrop of Rockall.G. S. Holland and R. A.GardinerThe First Map of Rockall. The Geographical Journal, v.141, n.1 (March 1975). pp. 94-98. The rock is approximately above low water, and in diameter, with an area of approximately . It is covered at high tide and in heavy seas, often only visible as breaking waves. The only other rocks in the area, those of Helen's Reef, are almost to the north-east. Expeditions and landings have not been reported. The geological composition is unknown. SS ''Norge'' disaster In 1904, the SS ''Norge'' ran aground on the Rock in foggy weather with the loss of over 635 lives. The sinking remains the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, and was at the time the worst civilian disaster in the Atlantic Ocean until the sinking of ...
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Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe and Asia from the "New World" of the Americas in the European perception of the World. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and North and South America to the west. As one component of the interconnected World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south (other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica). The Atlantic Ocean is divided in two parts, by the Equatorial Counter Current, with the North(ern) Atlantic Ocean and the South(ern) Atlantic Ocean split at about 8°N. Scientific explorations of the Atlanti ...
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