Near the top of the world, in the North Atlantic Ocean: If we look Southeast we see Norway. If we look Northwest we see Greenland. If we look South we see Iceland. If we look far North we see, well, Santa’s workshop.
The Arctic Ridge is part of the Mid-Ocean Ridge, an underwater mountain range that zig-zags for 60,000 kilometers along the ocean basins of the world like a seam on a baseball. The Arctic Ridge is characterized by a network of ridges, faults and fracture zones. From north to south, the main Arctic ridges include the Gakkel Ridge, Knipovich Ridge, Mohns Ridge, and the Kolbeinsey Ridge (which ‘points’ straight toward Iceland to its south).
If you were to slurp away the water here you would see that the Mohns Ridge, one of our focus areas bisects the Norwegian Sea from the Greenland Sea. On the southwest tip of the Mohns Ridge lies the Jan Mayen volcano.
