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LEGEND 



MOUNTAINS 



1. Baffin -Ellesmere mountains 

 of crystalline rocks 



2. Ellesmere -Axel Heiberg 

 mountains of folded rocks 



UPLANDS of crystalline rocks 



3. Baffin uplands 



4. Southampton-Melville uplands 



5. Boothia -Somerset uplands 



UPLANDS of folded rocks 



6. Western Victoria uplands 



7. Parry Islands uplands 



8. Cornwallis-Grinnell uplands 



9. Ellesmere -Grinnell uplands 



10. Hazen Lake upland 



PLATEAUX of flat-lying strata 

 SS3 11- Jones -Lancaster plateaux 

 v^ 12. Bache plateau 



13. Banks-Melville plateaux 



LOWLANDS and PLAINS 



14. Foxe Basin lowlands 



15. Southwestern Southampton 

 lowlands 



16. Boothia -Regent lowlands 



17. Eastern Victoria lowlands 



18. Arctic coastal plain 



REGIONS of undifferentiated lowlands, 

 plateaux and uplands 



19. Sverdrup -Parry region 



^ 20. Western Axel Heiberg region 

 21. Eureka -Nansen region 



G. S. C 



Fig. 40.1. Provisional physiographic divisions of the Arctic Archipelago. Reproduced from Fortier, 1959. 



