Eurasian Basin Eurasian Basin The Eurasia Basin, or Eurasian Basin, is one of the two major basins into which the Arctic Basin of the Arctic Ocean is split by the Lomonosov Ridge (other being the Amerasia Basin). The Eurasia Basin may be seen as an extension of the North Atlantic Basin through Fram Strait. It is further split by the mid-ocean Gakkel Ridge into the Nansen Basin and the Amundsen Basin. The latter basin is the deepest one of the Arctic Ocean and the geographic North Pole is located there. The Eurasia Basin is bounded by Greenland, the Lomonosov Ridge, and the
Nansen International Office for Refugees finding shelter in specially constructed houses in villages in Syria and Lebanon for 40,000 Armenians, after the resettlement of another 10,000 in Yerevan. The Nansen International Office for Refugees was responsible for the successful settlement of the Saar refugees in Paraguay after 1935. The Nansen International Office for Refugees was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to establish the Nansen passports. Nansen International Office for Refugees The Nansen International Office for Refugees ("") was an organization established in 1930 by the League of Nations and named after Fridtjof Nansen, soon after his death, which was internationally in