De Geer Land Bridge

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The De Geer Land Bridge was a land bridge that connected Fennoscandia to northern Greenland.[1] The land bridge provided a northern route from Europe to North America from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Paleocene,[1] although this timeframe has been disputed.[1]

Notable past (purple) and current (orange) land bridges on a bathymetric equirectangular projection centred on 45°E [2]

The De Geer Land Bridge provided a path from Scandinavia across the Barents Sea to Svalbard, northern Greenland, and northern Canada.[1] This may have been possible due to the Barents Sea residing on the shallow continental shelf.

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