Atlantic College
UWC Atlantic is an independent boarding school in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. Founded in 1962, it was the first of the United World Colleges and was among the first educational institutions in the world to follow an international curriculum; it helped create the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in the 1960s.- Type: College
- Description: independent (private) residential Sixth Form College in the United Kingdom
- Address: East Drive, CF61 1WF
Notable Places in the Area
Nash Point Lighthouse
Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nash Point is a headland and beach in the Monknash Coast of the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, about a mile from Marcross. Nash Point Lighthouse is situated 1½ km west of Atlantic College.
Fog Station at Nash Point Lighthouse
Museum
Photo: Aderixon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fog Station at Nash Point Lighthouse is a museum situated 1½ km west of Atlantic College.
Horseshoe Inn
Pub
Photo: cowbridgeguide.co.uk, CC BY 3.0.
Horseshoe Inn is a pub situated 1½ km northwest of Atlantic College.
Localities in the Area
Marcross
Village
Photo: Guy Wareham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marcross is a small village in the rural community of St Donats in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.
Llantwit Major
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llantwit Major is a town and community in Wales on the Bristol Channel coast.
Broughton
Village
Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broughton is a small village in the western part of the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales. Broughton is situated 3½ km northwest of Atlantic College.
Atlantic College
- Categories: independent school and education
- Location: St Donats, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4019° or 51° 24' 7" northLongitude
-3.53063° or 3° 31' 50" westOpen Location Code
9C3RCF29+QPOpenStreetMap ID
way 33267568OpenStreetMap Feature
amenity=collegeWikidata ID
Q756361Atlantic College Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: كلية العالم المتحد الأطلسية
- Basque: Atlantic College
- Catalan: UWC Atlantic College
- Chinese: 大西洋書院
- Chinese: 大西洋聯合世界書院
- Chinese: 大西洋聯合學院
- Dutch: Atlantic College
- English: Coleg yr Iwerydd
- English: UWC Atlantic College
- English: United World College of the Atlantic
- Finnish: Atlantic College
- French: Atlantic College
- German: Atlantic College
- German: UWC Atlantic
- German: United World College of the Atlantic
- Greek: Κολέγιο UWC Ατλάντικ
- Japanese: アトランティック・カレッジ
- Norwegian: Atlantic College
- Norwegian Bokmål: Atlantic College
- Norwegian Bokmål: United World College of the Atlantic
- Persian: کالج یودبلیوسی آتلانتیک
- Russian: Атлантический колледж
- Slovak: Atlantic College
- Spanish: Atlantic College
- Spanish: Colegio del Mundo Unido del Atlántico
- Spanish: UWC Atlantic College
- Spanish: UWC del Atlántico
- Spanish: United World College of the Atlantic
- Swedish: Atlantic College
- Ukrainian: Атлантичний коледж об'єднаного світу
- Vietnamese: Cao đẳng Atlantic UWC
- Welsh: Coleg yr Iwerydd
Other Places Named Atlantic College
Landmarks in the Area
- St Donats Arts CentreTheatre building, 120 metres west
- Rose GardenGarden, 170 metres southwest
- Top LawnGrassland, 170 metres west
- Madiba LawnGrassland, 240 metres southwest
- Sunley FieldMeadow, 260 metres southeast
Places in the Area
- St Donats' NurseryDay care
- Languages BlockSchool building
- Math BlockSchool building
- Headmaster's HouseBuilding, 110 metres north
- Pentti KouriDormitory, 170 metres north
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Atlantic College. Photo: Zilinsky, CC BY 2.5.