East and West are related to the place position in respect of the 0
meridian located nearby London, England, UK..
Thus all places West to this meridian up to 180 latitude degrees are
West, while all the other in the East part to 180 Latirude degrees
are Eest. The 180 W degrees (or 180 degrees East, which is obviously
the same) Meridian is placed about the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Enzo

>Hi,
>
>First, I thought it was some error, but I found it already in
>several documents, so it seems it is not so obvious as I thought before.
>
>Talking about Atlantic Ocean and molluscs which inhabit there,
>shouldn't  be East Atlantic the European coast and West Atlantic the
>American one? Same thing about Pacific: treat the California coast
>as West Pacific looks like a nonsense to me, however I found it in
>some places...
>
>Maybe a matter of points of view, but I am a little confused now,
>could you help?

Enzo Campani
C.so G. Mazzini 299
57126 Livorno
Italy
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