Arctic Basin

This article is about features within the Arctic Ocean. For a Canadian marine ecozone, see Arctic Basin Marine Ecozone (CEC).

Main bathymetric features of the Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Basin (also North Polar Basin) is an oceanic basin in the Arctic Ocean, consisting of two main parts separated by the Lomonosov Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge running between north Greenland and the New Siberian Islands. The basin is bordered by the continental shelves of Eurasia and North America.

• The Eurasian Basin (also Norwegian Basin) consists of the Nansen Basin (formerly: Fram Basin) and the Amundsen Basin
• The Amerasian Basin consists of the Canada Basin and the Makarov Basin

History

There was an expedition to the North Polar Basin by Fridtjof Nansen and Otto Sverdrup in the Fram in 1893–1896. Roald Amundsen sailed across the North Polar Basin between 1922 and 1924.

References

• Herman, Yvonne (July 1970) "Arctic Paleo-Oceanography in Late Cenozoic Time" Science (New Series) 169(3944): pp. 474–477.
• Olsson, Kristina, et al. (January 1999) "Carbon Utilization in the Eurasian Sector of the Arctic Ocean" Limnology and Oceanography 44(1): pp. 95–105.
• "Featured Explorers", World Book, retrieved 17 August 2005.