North Polar Basin

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For the region on Mars, see North Polar Basin (Mars).

The North Polar Basin is an oceanic basin in the Arctic Ocean, consisting of two main parts, the Central Polar Basin and the Norwegian Basin, divided by a mid-ocean ridge lying between north Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago. The basin is bordered by the continental shelves of Eurasia and North America.

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. Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth made the first aerial crossing in 1925, in a dirigible.

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