Atlantic crossings
Trips between continents
Atlantic crossings are voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, typically between Europe and the Americas.
The phrase evokes both historical migration—the ships that carried millions of immigrants to the New World—and modern travel by sea or air.
Her grandmother made the Atlantic crossing in 1923.
Transatlantic is the more common adjective for such journeys.
- steamshipsEngine-driven water vessels
- cargo shipsVessels for transporting goods
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- cruise shipsSeagoing pleasure vessels
- immigrant shipsBoats carrying those relocating abroad
trade routes · triangular trade · Mayflower · sea voyage · rough seas · exploration · globalization · ocean liners · passenger ships · Middle Passage · Ellis Island · Windrush · ocean currents · sailing vessels · colonization · transatlantic flights · port cities · early settlers
- Age of ExplorationColumbus, Marco Polo, exploration, explorers, expeditions
- America and Asia travelsSilk Road, Pacific Ocean, sea routes, trade routes, explorers
- Atlantic tradetriangle trade, slave ships, trade winds, transatlantic routes, shipping routes
- French seafaringsailors, seamen, ship captains, naval officers, French explorers
- Portuguese historyAge of Discovery, Carnation Revolution, Salazar, Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama
- Viking explorationLeif Erikson, Erik the Red, Vinland, longships, Iceland
Atlantic crossingsoverland routes
Paths across terrain
caravan routes · transcontinental railways · land bridges · Silk Road · overland expeditions