Jefferson had a wish. He wanted to discover a waterway that crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

The ship floundered in the South Atlantic, 1300 miles from the Cape.

他们的船在南大西洋，距好望角1300英里处沉没了。

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He had just become the first person to fly a plane alone across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

They wanted railroads that reached across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

They sailed up and down the Atlantic Coast and stole anything of value from other ships.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

And ships can reach the Atlantic Ocean from the Great Lakes through the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

I'm Steve Ember. Today,Mary Tillotson and I welcome you to a group of islands that extends into the Atlantic Ocean from the southern state of Florida.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

They seem to disappear from cool waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

The people had elected Polk because they shared his belief that the United States should extend from sea to sea -- from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Despite billions being spent on aviation security since 911, security was breached on Christmas Day as the trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam approached Detroit.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Troops from U.S.allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bring the total to about 100,000.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01