Morphology of the Eurasian Arctic basin

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Johnson, G. Leonard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1969
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Arctic Basin; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400064901; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400064901

The shape of the sea floor of the Arctic Basin is slowly being revealed by ice island programmes, icebreakers working the peripheral edges, under-ice nuclear submarine explorations and isolated ice landings by aircraft (Ostenso, 1962). The topographical features of the North American side of the Arctic have been studied by numerous investigators (Kutschale, 1966; DeLeeuw, 1967; Vogt and Ostenso, 1968), and are well documented. The Eurasian portion of the Arctic Basin is, however, less well known.