It’s very open drift ice (1-4/10th concentration) but still: Bear Island (Bjørnøya) in the southern Barents Sea was still surrounded by pack ice at 15 May 2020. As far as I can tell from the Norwegian Ice Service archived ice charts, this hasn’t happened since 2003. And last week, the island was surrounded by heavy […]

Still pack ice around Bear Island in the Barents Sea on 15 May: last time was 2003 — polarbearscience