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     30ºW                           0º                              30ºE                         60ºE                         90ºE
    Bay              Greenland                                                              North                  KEY
   Baffin                                                                                    Cape
   Basin  218m                                             Jan                                                           sea level
          (715ft)                                         Mayen  Norw eg ian                                                        1
                                        Denmark Strait              Sea  Voring                          Arctic Circle   800 ft
                  Nuuk                          Iceland     Norwegian   Plateau  S c a n d i n a v i a                   (250 m)
                                                                                                                         1,600 ft
                                                               Basin
       Davis Strait
                             Reykjanes         Reykjavik     Faeroe                                                      (500 m)
        Labrador                                                                         Helsinki
      Strait                  Basin          Iceland Basin   Islands      Oslo                                60ºN       3,300 ft
           Sea                    Reykjanes Ridge                                     B altic Sea                        (1,000 m)
            Labrador Eirik Ridge Imarssuak Channel  Hatton  Ridge  North      Stockholm          St Petersburg           6,500 ft
              Basin                             Rockall Bank        Sea                    Riga                          (2,000 m)
                                                         Dublin
                                                               Britain
                                                                                                                         9,800 ft
                                                        Ireland  London       Hamburg  Gdansk                            (3,000 m)
     L a b r a d o r
                           Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone
                                                                                     Vistula
                                             4,139m       Celtic     Amsterdam  Elbe  Oder        Dnieper  Dniester      16,400 ft  2
        Newfoundland  13m  Mid-Ocean Canyon
                 (43ft)             691m  e  (13,580ft) Porcupine  Shelf  Seine  Rhine                                   (5,000 m)
                                   (2,267ft)         Plain                 EUR OPE Odesa
                     Northwest Atlantic
                Grand Banks of                            Biscay             Venice
    Halifax                              g                 Plain
       69m      Newfoundland            d                            Marseille            Danube                      land
     Gulf of St Lawrence
                                                     Iberian
      (226ft)                                Azores–Biscay Rise  Barcelona                       Black Sea
                    Newfoundland       i              Plain                       Naples  Istanbul                    seamount
                        Basin        R                     Lisbon
                                        Azores
                                                   Seamounts
                                      East Azores Fracture Zone                      Athens                           sea depth
                                  c                Horseshoe
                                                       Strait of
                                i
               Sohm  Oceanographer     Fracture Zone   Gibraltar    Algiers  Tunis                     Beirut         maximum depth
   Bermuda   5,464m          n  t          Madeira  Madeira  Casablanca        Mediterranean Sea                      on map
               Plain
      New England
    Bermuda Rise  (17,927ft)  Atlantis    Fracture Zone  Plain  Canary      Tripoli       Alexandria  Suez Canal              30ºN  3
      Seamounts
                               Great Meteor
                           a
                                Tablemount
                                                  Islands
                          l
        Sargasso Sea
    8,962m             A  t                                                                      Nile
   (29,404ft) A TLANTIC254m                                                                                            Tropic of Cancer
         Nares Plain   -               Cape Verde  (833ft)
                                         Plain
                      d  3,780m                                         Sahar a
                        (12,402ft)          Cape Verde
    Trench
                      i               Cape   Terrace
   Puerto Rico
                                              Cape    Senegal               AFRICA
                                      Verde
               Barracuda Fracture Zone
   Lesser Antilles     M              Basin   Verde  Dakar           Niger
                                              Islands
               Demerara  Vema Fracture Zone  Gambia  4,700m  Conakry
   Caracas      Plain                  Plain  (15,421ft)                                                                            4
   Orinoco  Georgetown Amazon  Doldrums Fracture Zone  Sierra  Monrovia  Accra  Lagos
       Paramaribo   Fan  OCEAN                     Leone   Abidjan           Douala
           Cayenne                                 Basin          Gulf of
                                                                  Guinea Niger
                                     Saint Paul Fracture Zone   Guinea  Fan  Libreville                                     Equator
                                         Romanche Fracture Zone
           Amazon         Ceara Plain         Chain Fracture Zone  Basin
                   Belém            Fernando de
                                    Noronha            e                         Congo
                                               Ascension    Fracture Zone
                        Fortaleza
                                        Pernambuco                        Congo
                                                       d
                                           Basin      g Ascension Island   Fan   Luanda
                             Recife
     SOUTH          Tocantins  Sao Francisco  Brazil  i                                                                             5
                                       Basin Bode Verde   Fracture Zone
   AMERICA                    Salvador  (18,721ft)    R       Saint  Angola     Namibe
                                        5,706m
                                                              Helena
                                                                     Basin

                                 Hotspur      Saint Helena Fracture Zone
                                 Seamount                          5,042m
                                        Ilhas           c         (16,543ft)
                 Rio de Janeiro     Isla  Martin Vaz
                                  Trindade             i                       Namib       Desert
                                                                                  Walvis Bay
                                                       t                                                             Tropic of Capricorn
                                  636m
                        Santos   (2,087ft)            n               Wa l v i s   R i d g e  Orange
                        Plateau
        Parana  Uruguay  Porto              Rio Grande    Fracture Zone  Namibia                                                    6
                                                      a
                                                                          Plain
                  Alegre        Rio Grande           l                                                                        30ºS
                                  Rise                                                Cape Town        INDIAN
                                                     t                Cape Basin
      Buenos  Montevideo                                                 5,115m  Cape of
       Aires                                 1,739m  A  Tristan da Cunha  (16,782ft)  Good
                                             (5,706ft)                                                 OCEAN
                   Argentine               Gough Fracture Zone      Discovery    Hope
                                                    -
                      Basin                         d              Tablemounts                             e
                                                                                                         g
                                                     i
                       Zapiola                                                                         i  d
                        Ridge                                                                        R
                                                      M
                             3,667m                                                                n
            Falkland Escarpment
     Falkland               (12,031ft)                             Davis Seamounts              i  a
      Islands  Falkland              1,748m                                                    d                                    7
              Plateau           South  (5,735ft)                                             n
                               Georgia                                         A t l a n t i c – I
    Cape Horn                              South
                                       Islas Orcadas Rise
      Yaghan       Scotia
       Basin         Sea        East Scotia       A m e r i c a – A n t a r c t i c a   R i d g e
   Drake Passage    South Orkney  Basin         SOUTHERN OCEAN                                                                60ºS
                                                                         Atlantic–Indian Basin
     South Shetland Islands
                                      Sandwich  Trench
     Antarctic Peninsula  Weddell  Weddell Plain  Antarctic Circle  Lazar e v Sea  Astrid Ridge  SCALE 500  1,000  1,500  2,000  2,500 km  8  ATLAS OF THE OCEANS
                      Islands
                                                                 Maud
                                                                 Rise
                                                                                      0
   Ronne Ice Shelf   Sea                               ANT ARCTICA                    0     500   1,000  1,500  2,000  2,500  miles
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