Wales
Vale of Glamorgan
St Donats

Atlantic College

UWC Atlantic is an independent boarding school in in 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.
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  • Type: College
  • Description: independent (private) residential Sixth Form College in the United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Coleg yr Iwerydd”, “United World College of the Atlantic”, and “UWC Atlantic College”
  • Address: East Drive, CF61 1WF

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Nash Point Lighthouse and Fog Station at Nash Point Lighthouse.

Photo: Peter Wasp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nash Point is a headland and beach in the Monknash Coast of the in south , about a mile from . It is a popular location for ramblers and hiking along the cliffs to Llantwit Major beach. is situated 1 mile west of Atlantic College.

Museum
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is a museum, which is situated 1 mile west of Atlantic College.

Pub
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is a pub, which is situated 1 mile northwest of Atlantic College.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marcross and Llantwit Major.

Village
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is a small village in the rural community of in the , south . It consists of a public house and a few scattered houses, farms, and a small medieval church in the centre of the village.

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is a town and community in on the coast. It is one of four towns in the , with the third largest population after and , and ahead of .

Village
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is a small village in the western part of the , southeast . It lies just northeast of Monknash and south of . It contains a building known as "The Malthouse", now converted into flats. is situated 2 miles northwest of Atlantic College.

Atlantic College

Latitude
51.4019° or 51° 24′ 7″ north
Longitude
-3.53063° or 3° 31′ 50″ west
Operator
Vale of Glamorgan Council
Open location code
9C3RCF29+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 33267568
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­college
Wiki­data ID
Q756361
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Atlantic College” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كلية العالم المتحد الأطلسية”
  • Armenian: “Ատլանտյան քոլեջ”
  • 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”
  • Finnish: “Atlantic College”
  • French: “Atlantic College”
  • Galician: “UWC Atlantic College”
  • German: “Atlantic College”
  • German: “United World College of the Atlantic”
  • German: “UWC Atlantic”
  • Greek: “Κολέγιο UWC Ατλάντικ”
  • Hebrew: “אטלנטיק קולג‘”
  • Japanese: “アトランティック・カレッジ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atlantic College”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “United World College of the Atlantic”
  • Norwegian: “Atlantic College”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Atlantic College”
  • Persian: “کالج یودبلیوسی آتلانتیک”
  • Russian: “Атлантический колледж”
  • Slovak: “Atlantic College”
  • Spanish: “Atlantic College”
  • Spanish: “Colegio del Mundo Unido del Atlántico”
  • Spanish: “United World College of the Atlantic”
  • Spanish: “UWC Atlantic College”
  • Spanish: “UWC del Atlántico”
  • Swedish: “Atlantic College”
  • Ukrainian: “Атлантичний коледж об’єднаного світу”
  • Vietnamese: “Cao đẳng Atlantic UWC”
  • Welsh: “Coleg yr Iwerydd”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Atlantic College”. Photo: Zilinsky, CC BY 2.5.