Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet The Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet (SBSIS) covered not only the Svalbard Archipelago, but also large parts of the current Barents Sea. During strong glacials, it reached [...] which helps us to reconstruct past ocean currents from the iceberg drift. The Barents Sea - the ocean basin north of Scandinavia - was subaerially exposed until ca. 1 million years ago. The thick SBSIS [...] South, and Frans Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya towards east and southeast, reaching even into the Kara Sea. The thick ice mass shaped the buried landscape and left traces at many locations. Today, we are able