Arctic Sea Ice
The frozen cap of the Arctic Ocean — a floating sheet of sea ice that has waxed and waned through the Quaternary ice ages and is now shrinking fast as the planet warms.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1909 CE disputed
Robert Peary's disputed claim to reach the North Pole over the ice source - 1979 CE mainstream
the satellite record of Arctic sea-ice extent begins source - 2012 CE mainstream
record-low summer sea-ice minimum source
Where
88.0000° N, 0.0000° E
Sources
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