Fridtjof Nansen Yerevan in Soviet Armenia, and to find homes for a further 40,000 in Syria and Lebanon. In 1938, the year in which it was superseded by a wider-ranging body, the Nansen Office was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1954, the League's successor body, the United Nations, established the Nansen Medal, later named the Nansen Refugee Award, given annually by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to an individual, group or organisation "for outstanding work on behalf of the forcibly displaced". Numerous geographical features bear his name: the Nansen Basin and the Nansen-Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean; Mount
Geology of the Pacific Ocean as the Aleutian Arc off Alaska and the Kermadec-Tonga Subduction Zone north of New Zealand. As a result of the collision of the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate, the Andes Mountains emerged in western South America, close to the Peru–Chile Trench. Many large fracture zones aligned in an east-west direction, occur in the floor of the northeastern Pacific. The Pacific is a broad ocean basin (unlike the narrow Atlantic Ocean) and extends over a width of between New Guinea and Peru. The andesite line, a zone of intense volcanic and seismic activity, is a major regional distinction in