Greenland Sea

IHO sea area 5 · -36° to 17° E, 65° to 83° N

in force
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last 12 months
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archive messages
93
categories
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What the archive shows

93 messages are recorded since 1997-12-13 for the Greenland Sea. The selection uses the IHO sea area; a message may describe an exercise, equipment outage or continuing operation as well as a hazard report.

Ordnance accounts for 34 of 93 recorded messages (37%), the largest category group in this selection.

The NGA historical archive froze in 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. Counts around that gap are incomplete, and changes in reporting volume do not establish changes in incident frequency.

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By year

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By category · available archive

Ordnance3437%
Quakes2325%
Missiles1617%
Surveys78%
Cable ops55%
Icebergs22%
Other22%
Nav aids22%
Exercises22%

Archive · 93 cancelled

  1. HYDROLANT 1854/00 · Ordnance2000-05-22 → 2000-05-23
    Unexploded ordnance vicinity 68-50N 012-00W
  2. USGS-USP0009T9N · Quakes2000-05-21 → 2000-05-24
    34 km nne of olonkinbyen, svalbard and jan mayen
  3. USGS-USP0009N0D · Quakes2000-02-03 → 2000-02-06
    Earthquake magnitude 5.5 (mwc) in 75.271N 010.195E, depth 10 km at 031553Z feb 00
  4. HYDROLANT 2606/99 · Ordnance1999-12-03 → 1999-12-03
    Possible unexploded floating ordnance adrift in 68-32N 013-44W, 68-27N 013-16W, 68-33N 013-31W
  5. HYDROLANT 2369/99 · Ordnance1999-11-05 → 1999-11-06
    Possible unexploded ordnance adrift in 68-45N 012-00W
  6. HYDROLANT 2357/99 · Ordnance1999-11-04 → 1999-11-12
    Possible unexploded ordnance adrift in 68-34N 012-00W
  7. HYDROLANT 1501/99 · Ordnance1999-07-20 → 1999-09-17
    Possible unexploded ordnance adrift vicinity 68-38N 011-07W
  8. USGS-USP0009AV2 · Quakes1999-07-01 → 1999-07-04
    256 km wsw of olonkinbyen, svalbard and jan mayen
  9. USGS-USP0009AV1 · Quakes1999-07-01 → 1999-07-04
    245 km wsw of olonkinbyen, svalbard and jan mayen
  10. HYDROLANT 1192/99 · Ordnance1999-06-09 → 1999-07-30
    Possible unexploded floating ordnance vicinity: a. 68-56N 011-28W
  11. HYDROLANT 591/99 · Ordnance1999-03-26 → 1999-03-27
    Possible undetonated floating ordnance in vicinity 69-06N 011-27W until 270200Z mar
  12. USGS-USP0008HTD · Quakes1998-03-21 → 1998-03-24
    Earthquake magnitude 6.2 (mwc) in 79.888N 001.856E, depth 10 km at 211633Z mar 98
  13. USGS-USP0008CJS · Quakes1997-12-13 → 1997-12-16
    39 km nne of olonkinbyen, svalbard and jan mayen

Sea boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (2018), IHO Sea Areas v3, marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0). Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts.