Significant Places and Features for Global Tectonics: The Arctic

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The Eastern Hemisphere
Barents Shelf
Bering Strait
Chukchi Plateau
Chukchi Sea
East Siberian Sea
Eurasian Basin
Fran Basin
Franz Josef Land
Kara Sea
Kola Peninsula
Laptev Sea
Lena Delta
Lomonosov Ridge
Makarov Basin
Mendeleev Cordillera
Mid-Arctic Ridge
New Siberian Islands
North Pole
Novaya Zemlya
Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago
Spitsbergen
Taimyr Peninsula
White Sea

The Western Hemisphere
Alpha Ridge
Baffin Bay
Baffin Island
Banks Island
Beaufort Sea
Bering Strait
Brooks Range
Canada Basin
Davis Strait
Devon Island
Ellesmere Island
Eyjafjallajökull
Fran Basin
Greenland
Hekla
Iceland
Jan Mayen fracture zone
Jan Mayen Island
Lomonosov Ridge
Mid-Arctic Ridge
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Nares Strait
North Pole
North Slope of Alaska
Norwegian Sea
Queen Elizabeth Archipelago
Surtsey
Svalbard fracture zone
Victoria Island

Alpha Ridge
Extending from Ellesmere Island across the Western Arctic

Baffin Bay
between Canada and Greenland

Baffin Island
largest island in the Canadian Arctic

Banks Island
westernmost island of the Canadian Arctic

Barents Shelf
Shelf north of European Russia

Beaufort Sea
north of Alaska

Bering Strait
between Siberia and Alaska

Brooks Range
northernmost mountain range of Alaska

Canada Basin
largest basin, in the western Arctic

Chukchi Plateau
north of the Bering Strait

Chukchi Sea
far eastern Siberian margin

Devon Island
between Ellesmere and Baffin islands

East Siberian Sea
as the name says - east Siberian (east of New Siberian Islands)

Ellesmere Island
northernmost Canada, location of Eureka Orogeny and Pearya terrane

Eurasian Basin
basin between mid-Arctic Ridge and Lomonosov Ridge

Eyjafjallajökull
erupted April 2010, shutting down air traffic over much of Europe
Fran Basin
Arctic Ocean floor off Barents Shelf

Franz Josef Land
archipelago along the edge of the Barents Shelf east of Svalbard

Greenland
rifted off North America

Hekla
central Icelandic volcano

Iceland
on mid-Atlantic Ridge

Jan Mayen fracture zone
major fracture zone across mid-Atlantic Ridge between Iceland and Spitsbergen

Jan Mayen Island
volcanic hot spot island on Jan Mayen Fracture Zone between Greenland and Norway

Kara Sea
east of Novaya Zemlya

Kola Peninsula
northeastern Scandinavia and northwesternmost Russia

Laptev Sea
between Taimyr Peninsula and New Siberian Islands

Lena Delta
on Laptev Sea, best found by projecting the mid-Arctic Ocean ridge to its Euler pole

Lomonosov Ridge
splits Arctic Ocean basin in two, extending from Ellesmere Island to New Siberian Islands

Makarov Basin
between Lomonosov Ridge and Alpha Ridge-Mendeleev Cordillera

Mendeleev Cordillera
elevated portion of the Siberian side of the Canada Basin

Mid-Arctic Ridge
extension of the mid-Atlantic Ridge north of the Svalbard fracture zone
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
extending north and south from Iceland

Nares Strait
narrow strait between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
 
New Siberian Islands
archipelago between Laptev and East Siberian seas

North Pole
beside Santa's house
 
North Slope of Alaska
northern margin of Alaska, north of Brooks Range
 
Norwegian Sea
northeastern Atlantic Ocean
 
Novaya Zemlya
northern extension of Ural Mountains, separating Barents and Kara seas

Queen Elizabeth Archipelago
the northern islands of Canada (north of Baffin-Victoria-Banks islands)

Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago
between Laptev and East Siberian seas
 
Spitsbergen
on northwestern margin of the Barents Shelf

Surtsey
Island formed on south coast of Iceland by volcanic eruptions in 1963
 
Svalbard fracture zone
separates mid-Atlantic from mid-Arctic ridges, extending from Svalbard along the north of Greenland
 
Taimyr Peninsula
northernmost Russia (central Siberia)

Victoria Island
largest island in the western Canadian Arctic

White Sea
northern European Russia

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