Ocean Floor Map

Chukchi Sea depth map

Sea: average depth about 42 m, deepest 126 m (GEBCO_2026 grid).

Shaded relief map of the world with the sea coloured by depth: dark blue for the deep ocean, light blue for shallow seasTap or scroll to load the interactive map

Sea level todayDrag the slider to lower the sea and see the land that would appear.

Sea level in metres below today’s. A simple bathtub model: it lowers the sea everywhere by the same amount and does not simulate how the water would really drain.

Key

Sea depth

  • Deeper than 6,000 m
  • 4,000 to 6,000 m
  • 2,000 to 4,000 m
  • 1,000 to 2,000 m
  • 200 to 1,000 m
  • Shallower than 200 m (the continental shelf)

Land height

  • Land up to 500 m
  • 500 to 2,000 m
  • Above 2,000 m

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  • Seabed exposed when the sea is lowered A dashed white line marks today’s coast.

How to read the map. Darker blue is deeper water. Tap anywhere to see how deep the sea is there, or how high the land is, and the nearest named undersea feature. Depths come from the GEBCO_2026 grid, which in most of the deep ocean is predicted from satellite measurements of the sea surface rather than surveyed by ship, and the map’s tiles are coarser than the grid, so narrow trenches read shallower on the map than their true depth. Not for navigation.

Chukchi Sea at a glance

  • 42 maverage depth
  • 45 mmedian depth
  • 126 mmaximum depth
  • 336,609 km²water area

Chukchi Sea is a sea. Inside its outline the GEBCO grid has about 336,609 km² of water, with an average depth of about 42 m (the middle value is 45 m) and a maximum of 126 m, found at 66.46° N, 170.74° W.

Open the map at the deepest cell and tap to read the depth.

How deep is each part of the Chukchi Sea?

The bar splits the Chukchi Sea's water by depth. Each colour is a depth band, and the shares add up to 100%.

  • 0 to 200 m: 100%
  • 200 to 1,000 m: 0%
  • 1,000 to 4,000 m: 0%
  • 4,000 to 6,000 m: 0%
  • below 6,000 m: 0%

Named features near the deepest point: Barrow Canyon (767 km), Zhemchug Canyon (953 km), Lomonosov Ridge (1,078 km), Northwind Ridge (1,173 km).

The Chukchi Sea if sea level dropped

The slider on the map lowers the sea in steps. This table shows how much of the Chukchi Sea's water would be land at each step.

Sea level lowered byBecomes landShare of its water
10 m8,508 km²2.5%
20 m26,592 km²7.9%
50 m247,480 km²73.5%
80 m335,117 km²99.6%
120 m336,604 km²100%
200 m336,609 km²100%
500 m336,609 km²100%
1,000 m336,609 km²100%
2,000 m336,609 km²100%
3,000 m336,609 km²100%
4,000 m336,609 km²100%
6,000 m336,609 km²100%

A simple bathtub model: it lowers the sea everywhere by the same amount and does not simulate how water would really drain.

Nearby seas

Nearest by the centre of each outline. All oceans and seas

Frequently asked questions

How deep is the Chukchi Sea?

On average about 42 m in the GEBCO grid (the middle value is 45 m). The deepest cell inside its outline is 126 m, at 66.46° N, 170.74° W.

How big is the Chukchi Sea?

About 336,609 km² of water inside its Natural Earth outline, counted from the grid cells that are below sea level.

How much of the Chukchi Sea would be land if sea level dropped?

With the sea 10 m lower, about 8,508 km² (2.5%) of its water would be land. At 6,000 m lower, 100% would be. This is a simple bathtub model that lowers the sea evenly everywhere.

Data: depths from the GEBCO_2026 grid, statistics worked out inside the Natural Earth outline of the sea. See data sources and licences. The GEBCO Grid should NOT be used for navigation or for any other purpose involving safety at sea.

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