The Soviet Arctic Research Institute reported last week that it had mapped the bottom of the frozen Arctic Ocean. Main feature: a mountain range up to 10,000 ft. high that runs submerged from northern Greenland to the New Siberian Islands (see map). The Soviet scientists named it the Lomonosov Range in honor of Russian Poet-Scientist Mikhail Vassi-lievich Lomonosov.-
Much of the rest of the Arctic Sea's bottom is mountainous too. The Russians said that earth folds run across it from eastern Siberia to Ellesmere Island, north of Canada. They did not say how they got...
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