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150 120 90 60 30 0 30 60 90 120 Lo 150 180 mon Alpha Ridge osov Rid ARCTIC OCEAN FRANZ JOSEF ge ARCTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN LAND SEVERN AYA Physical Map of the World ZEM LYA Ellesmere hi ukc Island Ch au dge QUEEN ELIZABETH late d Ri NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS P win Svalbard NOVAYA Kara Sea With Ocean Features orth Greenland Sea N ISLANDS (NORWAY) ZEMLYA Banks Laptev Sea Lena Island E Barents Sea Delta Beaufort Sea RIDG Wrangel Chukchi Baffin Greenland MOHNS East Siberian Sea Scale 1:35,000,000 Sea (DENMARK) Island Mackenzie Victoria Bay Norwegian Yenisei Robinson Projection Delta Island Baffin Jan Mayen Delta Chukchi (NORWAY) Sea Standard parallels 38°N and 38°S G E Island Sea BROOKS R A N ARCTIC CIRCLE (66°33') Vøring ARCTIC CIRCLE (66°33') ARCTIC CIRCLE (66°33') Plateau White Sea Ob U. S. Great Delta Mt. McKinley Bear Lake Denmark ICELAND NORWAY S I B E R I A (highest point in North America, 6194 m) Davis SWEDEN S Strait Faroe N Bering E I Strait Islands Gulf FINLAND Lake Strait G A Yukon ID (DEN.) of Ladoga Great R T Delta Bothnia Slave Lake ES N N U R U S S I A 60 Hudson A 60 J O Copper YK Bering M Delta Bay RE ES T . Shelf R Labrador Rockall Bering Sea (U.K.) DS Kodiak k N O n UNITED SLA Island Sea a North Baltic L AT . N I Gulf of Alaska l B DENMARK TIA C A N A D A al Sea LITH. Lake EU C k Sea Sea of Aleutian AL c RUSSIA Ro L Baikal Basin H K Isle of NETH. A Okhotsk C Charlie - Gibbs Fracture Zone Man (U.K.) R ) REN Lake POL AND BE L ARUS ALEUT I A N ISLAN D S (U.S. Y T U Winnipeg IRELAND KI NGDOM Rhine AN Delta LEUTI A A GERMANY L E Newfoundland TA ALE Celtic I UTIAN TRENCH G Guernsey (U.K.) BELGIUM U K R A I N E Aleutian ID Sea (U.K.) CZECH REP. R Jersey SLOVAKIA M L UX. M Gulf of T KURIL H A S Abyssal C LIECH. MOLDOVA K A Z A K H S T A N . U St. Lawrence ISLANDS C F Lake SWITZ. AUSTRIA Lake Balkhash N Plain O Lake Grand FRANCE S E Huron P HUNGARY Gora El'brus E D Superior Banks L ROMANIA Sea of R A SLOVENIA (highest point in Europe, Aral M O N G O L I A T N U S t. Pier r e Bay of Azov CROTIA Volga A Danube 5633 m) Sea E U Lake and Miquelon Biscay Delta T L m J SAN Po Delta R I N Michigan BOSNIA & HER. S E (FRANCE) MARINO Delta C D E R p Lake e MONACO SERB.& AUC Caspian U e g A MONT. ASU N O R T H T d K r Gulf of id r Black Sea S SHAN B I o Ontario R ITALY ia MT Sea IAN O Maine Corsica tic GEORGIA S. UZBEKISTAN T G r y ANDORRA VATICAN BULGARIA (lowest point in A a Lake Newfoundland c (FR.) CITY Se U N I T E D S Bis a ALB. Europe, -28 m) S ure Zone Erie IN - KYRGYZSTAN Sea of e ract Basin s MACEDONIA H Mendocino F I A re ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN a T Sohm o Ebro m P A C I F I C N z PORTUGAL NORTH KOREA C N A Delta Sardinia U (I T .) Tyrrhenian TAKLA MAKAN Japan O Abyssal SPAIN BALEARIC Aegean TURKMENISTAN N o M ISLANDS Sea Sea E u S Ne GREECE T U R K E Y R n N w E Plain (S P.) DESERT Yellow River n T AJIKISTAN T t g IA la AZORES Delta s N O R T H O C E A N H nd Ionian JAPAN S T A T E S (PO RT .) Sicily S Death Valley C e Sea N A am (I T .) Indian (lowest point in A L o SOUTH A u Strait of Gibraltar (U.K.) MALTA H 1972 claim North America, -86 m) P n e P Hess P t Gibraltar l l Line of Control C H I N A s e Yellow KOREA A A n i Crete A T L A N T I C TUNISIA c T (GR.) SYRIA J Rise E MADEIRA r e n c h CYPRUS LEB. Sea Shatsky ne IRAQ Line of Fracture Zo G ISLANDS I Murray Mediterranean Sea Actual TIBETAN PLATEAU Z Rise N O R T H Colorado Hatteras Bermuda D (PO RT .) AFGHANISTAN Control U Nile Delta Delta (U.K.) I H Yangtze I - O C E A N ISRAEL Mt. Everest Z u Abyssal Delta B a Bermuda R Dead Sea (lowest point in Asia, -408 m) I R A N I (highest point in Asia U e M O t - a Plain l Rise A and the world, 8850 m) P A C I F I C MOROCCO B N P JORDAN Shatt al L 30 C O 30 e Arab A I CANA RY ISLANDS ( k KUWAIT J N Y S O F a East China A N l l (S P.) 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R I N D I A Ganges- Gulf of e Mdi -Pacfcii I D REPUBLIC C D (U.K.) g ISLANDS UGH MAURITANIA Red Brahmaputra Hainan Sea (U.S.) ounts Tonkin N Seam D TRO I d Nor ther n (U.S.) N Delta i ISLAS A Dao E L YM R Mar iana A M A L I E BELIZE C HAITI R ne REVILLAGIGEDO Puerto L M Sea u e Zo e Indus T ctur (MEXICO) JAMAICA Senegal PARACEL Islands Rico s Fra a ion s Delta l John ston Atoll Clar (U.S.) e ERITREA ISLANDS (U.S.) e N I G E R Cone Bay of A A s a M i r CAPE VERDE YEMEN R THAILAND (U.S.) P E N GUATEMALA HONDURAS a Irrawaddy A R u - IC g ISLANDS CHAD Delta VIET NAM A a n A r Caribbean Sea Bengal I a SENEGAL u ic t R h N i n l BURKINA e Mariana Arabian s A Ar uba l d ANDAMAN E e A South China f PHILIPPINES u NICARAGUA (NETH.) FASO S U D A N Lac 'Assal o ISLANDS Guam M Basin EL SALVADOR Neth. Antilles s BARBADOS f CAMBODIA GAMBIA l y S (lowest point in Africa, DJIBOUTI u Ganges (U.S.) (NETH.) 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