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Antarctic sea ice cover 2023

March 21 , 2023 487 days 426 0
  • In February 2023, sea ice around Antarctica reached the lowest extent ever observed since the start of the satellite record in 1979.
  • The figures were published by the US-based National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC).
  • Sea ice around Antarctica reached its lowest extent on February 21, 2023, at 1.79 million square Km (691,000 square miles).
  • It is 130,000 square kilometres (50,000 square miles) below the previous record-low reached on February 25, 2022.
  • It marks the second time that scientists observed the ice shrinking below 2 million square kilometers.

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