Nansen Basin
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The Nansen Basin (also Central Basin, formerly Fram Basin) is an abyssal plain with water-depths of around 3 km in the Arctic Ocean and (together with the deeper Amundsen Basin) part of the Eurasian Basin. The Nansen Basin fenced by the Gakkel Ridge and by the Barents Sea continental shelf on the other side.