»Lomonosov Ridge
~ an underwater oceanic ridge in the Arctic Ocean
~ spans 1800 km from the New Siberian Islands over the central part of the ocean to Ellesmere Island of the Canadian Arctic islands
~ the width varies from 60 to 200 km
~ rises 3,300 to 3,700 m above the seabed
~ the minimum depth of the ocean above the ridge is 954 m
~ slopes are relatively steep, broken up by canyons, and covered with layers of silt
~ first discovered by the Soviet high-latitude expeditions in 1948 and named after Mikhail Lomonosov
~ in the 2000s attracted international attention due to the submission by the Russian Federation to the UN Commission
~ on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (article 76, paragraph 8)
~ the document proposed establishing new outer limits for the Russian continental shelf, beyond the previous 200 mile zone, but within the Russian Arctic sector
~ Lomonosov Ridge and Mendeleev Ridge claimed to be the extensions of the Eurasian continent
~ Danish scientists to prove the ridge to be an extension of Greenland
~ Canada asserting that the ridge is an extension of its continental shelf