sea ice extentsummer median

1981-2010

sea ice extentsummer median

2019

60

30 30

50

70

80

0

60 60

90E90 W

120 120150150 180

Arctic Circle

NorthPole

Arctic Circle

HudsonBay

GreatSlaveLakeLake

Athabasca

Great BearLake

Bay

ChukchiSea

DavisStrait

Bering Sea

Barents Sea

Ob’

Ob’

NorwegianSea

GreenlandSea

KaraSea

EastSiberian

Sea

BalticSea

Lake Onega

LakeLadoga

A R C T I CO C E A N

BeaufortSea

White Sea

BristolBay

LabradorSea

TatarStrait

Sea ofJapan

BeringStrait

BlackSea

DenmarkStrait

Gulf ofAlaska

LaptevSea

ZalivShelikhova

N O R T H P A C I F I CO C E A N

N O R T H A T L A N T I CO C E A N

Sea ofOkhotsk

NorthSea

Lena

Vilyuy

Yenisey

Lena

Aldan

Amur

Irtys

h

Dvina

Vych

egda

Severnaya

Sukh

ona

Kam

aVo

lga

Dnieper

Don

Pechora

Yuko

n Ri

ver

Mackenzie River

River

Peace

Kolyma

C A N A D A

CHINA

Greenland(DENMARK)

ICELAND

UNITED STATES

ROMANIABEL. CZECHIA

UKRAINEIRELAND

FINLAND

SWEDEN

U.K.

SLOV.

RUS.

LATVIA

LITH.

DENMARK

GERMANY

J A P A N

NETH.

BELARUS

POLAND

NORWAY

HUNG.

MOL.

R U S S I A

T U R K E Y

KAZ.

EST.

Svalbard(NORWAY)

Jan Mayen(NORWAY)

FaroeIslands

(DENMARK)

Bjørnøya

Occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945; administered by RUSSIA; claimed by JAPAN.

WrangelIsland

VictoriaIsland

Banks Island

EllesmereIsland

Island

NEWSIBERIANISLANDS

NEWSIBERIANISLANDS

QUEEN

ELIZABETH

ISLANDSSEVERNAYAZEMLYA

NOVAYAZEMLYA

SHETLANDISLANDS

FRANZJOSEFLAND

A L E U T I A N I S L A N D S K U R I L I S L A N D S

Alert

Arviat

CambridgeBay

Churchill

Dawson

Juneau

FortMcMurray

FortNelson

GjoaHaven

Inuvik

Iqaluit

Kuujjuaq

PondInlet

PrinceGeorge

RankinInlet

RepulseBay

Resolute

Whitehorse

Yellowknife

Ilulissat

Ittoqqorttoormiit

Nord

Nuuk

Qaanaaq(Thule)

Qaqortoq

Sisimiut

Tasiilaq

Anadyr’

Arkhangel’sk

Cherskiy

Kaliningrad

Kazan’

Khabarovsk

Krasnodar

Magadan

Murmansk

NizhniyNovgorod

Noril’sk

Dikson

Okhotsk

Oymyakon

Perm'

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Pevek

Provideniya

Rostov

Saint Petersburg

Samara

Saratov

Sochi

Tiksi

Verkhoyansk

VolgogradVoronezh

Yakutsk

Yekaterinburg

Kharkiv

Belfast

Anchorage

(Barrow)

Bethel

Fairbanks

Kodiak

Nome

PrudhoeBay

Valdez

Tromsø

Umeå

Bergen

Reykjavík

Tallinn

Brussels

Minsk

Kyiv

Berlin

Copenhagen

Dublin

Vilnius

Stockholm

Moscow

Amsterdam

Oslo

London

Warsaw

Prague

HelsinkiTórshavn

Longyearbyen

Chisinau

Riga

0 500 Kilometers

0 500 Miles

Scale 1:39,000,000Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection

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