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ice formed from frozen seawater
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sea ice

Summary

sea ice ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (628 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • sea ice is made of sea water[2].
  • sea ice is a type of natural landscape[3].
  • sea ice is a type of ice cover[4].
  • sea ice's Commons category is recorded as Sea ice[5].
  • sea ice comprises Antarctic sea ice[6].
  • sea ice's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sea ice[7].
  • sea ice's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8].
  • sea ice's different from is recorded as ice floe[9].
  • sea ice's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002200[10].
  • sea ice's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include natural landscape[3] and ice cover[4].

Use and Application

sea ice comprises Antarctic sea ice[6].

Why It Matters

sea ice ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (628 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Sea ice
    Described by source → Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
    Has part(s) → Antarctic sea ice
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 22467, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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