Significant Places for Global Tectonics: Map 1

For the list of places see List 1 or look below the map.  Red are oceanic places, green are continental (I hope you can see that!)  Hover your mouse over any of the red or dark green coloured regions to find out what they are.  You need to know all of these for quiz 1.


Atlantic Ocean region
Jan Mayen
Iceland
Azores
Tristan da Cunha
Bouvet Island
Bermuda
Faeroe Islands
Walvis Ridge
Rio Grande Rise
Romanche Fracture Zone
Scotia (South Sandwich) Arc  
Spitsbergen
Bahamas
Caribbean Sea
Lesser Antilles
Gulf of Mexico
North Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Aegean Sea
Bay of Biscay

 



Indian Ocean region
Bay of Bengal
Carlsberg Ridge
Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
Dead Sea
Afar Triangle
Owen Fracture Zone
Ninety-east Ridge
Indus Delta and Fan
Ganges Delta and Fan
Persian Gulf
Kerguelen Plateau
Banda Arc
Andaman Sea
Amsterdam-St. Paul Islands  
Sunda Arc
Indonesia
Pacific and Arctic regions  
Easter Island
Galapagos Islands
Gulf of California
Mendocino Fracture Zone
Hawaii
Midway Island
Emperor Seamount Chain
Tuamotu - Line Islands
Aleutian Arc
Kamchatka Peninsula
Kuril Arc
Japan Arc
Sea of Japan
Ryukyu Islands
Philippine Arc
Mariana Arc
Papua-New Guinea
Tonga - Kermadec Arc
Izu - Bonin Arc
Cocos Ridge (Pacific)
Nazca Ridge
Tasman Sea
Lomonosov Ridge
Arctic Ocean Ridge
Continents
Appalachian Mountains
Cordillera (North America)
Andes
Antarctic Peninsula
Atlas Mountains
Apennines
Alps
Carpathians
Caucasus
Hindu Kush
Himalaya
India
Indochina
Malay Peninsula
Tibetan Plateau
Urals
Lake Baikal
East African Rift Valley
Iberia
Scandinavia
New Zealand
Scotland
Caspian Sea
Anatolian Plateau

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