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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge · Geographic context

Natural feature · Europe

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Also known as Atlantshafshryggurinn

The undersea mountain chain where the North American and Eurasian plates separate; Iceland is the stretch of it that stands above sea level.

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No full entry for this place yet

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is on the atlas, but nobody has written and sourced a full entry for it. Rather than generating one, we are leaving this blank until it can be researched properly. The coverage inventory in the repository tracks what is outstanding.

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