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70˚N Lena 120˚E 70˚N 90˚E Arctic Circle
Buorkhaya Guba Tiksi ASIA Yenisey Transpolar Current
Beaufort
Dimitraya Lapteva 6m Gyre
Ostrov
Bol’shoy (20ft) Gydanskiy
Lyakhovskiy Laptev Sea Poluostrov
Ostrov Norwegian Current
Kotel’nyy Poluostrov Taymyr Obskaya Guba Current East Greenland Current
Novosibirskiye Poluostrov
West Greenland
Ostrova Dikson SURFACE CURRENTS
Yamal
Proliv
Vil’kitskogo 5m Baydaratskaya
Ostrov (16ft) Guba
Bol’shevik Severnaya Ostrov
3,849m Zemlya
(12,629ft) Kara Belyy Polar Easterlies
Ostrov
80˚N Oktyabr’skoy 60˚E Kara
ARCTIC Revolyutsii Sea 328m Strait
Ostrov Voronin Trough East Novaya Zemlya Trough Polar Easterlies
(1,076ft)
Komsomolets
OCEAN Central Kara Plateau Novaya Zemlya
2,814m
(9,233ft)
Anna Trough
Wrangel Syvataya 170m 109m Polar Easterlies Westerlies
Plain (558ft) (358ft)
Barents
Pole Plain
G
Franz Josef Sea
a
4,484m k SURFACE WINDS
(14,712ft) k Nansen Basin Land
e
l limit of summer pack ice 102m Thor Beaufort Scale Speed
0–3 0–10 mph (0–16 km/h)
Makarov Basin
(335ft) Iversen
R
3,910m limit of winter pack ice over 5.5
i Bank 3–5.5 10–25 mph (16–40 km/h)
(12,829ft) Kvitøya over 25 mph (over 40 km/h)
d
Barents Stor
g
North Fram Basin e Plain Bank 30˚E
Pole EUROPE
Lomonosov Ridge
Nordaustlandet North
Edgeøya 257m Cape
Yermak Litke Trough Barentsøya Bjornöya (843ft) Hammerfest
Plateau Spitsbergen Storfjordrenna Bank Barents Trough
1,250m 2,590m Longyearbyen Bjørnoya 5
Alpha Cordillera
(4,101ft) (8,498ft)
Spitsbergen Fugløya Tromsø
Fracture Zone Bank
Lena Trough 5,601m
Kap (18,377ft)
Morris Jesup Wandel Knipovich Ridge
Sea Hovgaard
Nord Fracture Zone Bodø
Lincoln Boreas
Cape Sea Plain 2,580m Vestfjorden
Columbia Greenland Fracture Zone (8,465ft) Røst
15m Bank
(49ft)
Alert 3,900m
Alex (12,796ft) Norwegian 6
Heiberg Belgica Mohns Ridge Sea 222m Halten
Island Bank Greenland (738ft) Bank
Islands Ellesmere Island Nares Strait 80˚N Plain Sea Dumshaf (4,200ft)
Plain
1,280m
Voring
Plateau
Greenland
Grise Jan Mayen Fracture Zone
Fiord Qaanaaq Daneborg 210m Jan Mayen Norwegian
(689ft) Basin
Trench
77m Norwegian
Devon (253ft) Jan Mayen Ridge 7
Jones Sound
Island Devon Greenland Kolbeinsey Ridge
Cape
Sherard Shelf
732m Kullorsuaq 0˚
(2,402ft)
Devon Slope Baffin Upernavik Plateau (223ft) ATLAS OF THE OCEANS
Lancaster Trough
Bylot Ittorqqortoormiit Shetland
Lancaster Sound
Island Iceland 68m Trough Faeroe–Shetland Islands
Basin
Faeroe
2,377m Islands
(7,799ft) Britain 8
Baffin Denmark Strait Iceland
Bay Uummannaq Arctic Circle
70˚N
Qeqertarssuaq Reykjavík
Baffin Island
60˚W 30˚W
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