A map showing the location of the Shivering Sea.
- "As soon as you get on his ships, they're gonna slit your throats and dump your bodies to the bottom of the Shivering Sea!"
- ―Loboda
The Shivering Sea is a substantial ocean located to the northeast of Westeros and north of Essos in the Known World. It separates Essos from the northern polar icecap. The Narrow Sea opens into the Shivering Sea just east of the Vale of Arryn. The entire eastern coast of the North is on this ocean: the Bite and the Bay of Seals are inlets of the Shivering Sea.
History
Season 5
Jon Snow takes a fleet of sellsail ships (which he borrowed from Stannis Baratheon) to evacuate the remaining wildlings gathered at Hardhome.[1]
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Shivering Sea is an immense polar sea. Its northernmost reaches are frozen, filled with dangerous icebergs, and unexplored. It might not entirely circle the pole, as the northernmost limits of Westeros's landmass beyond the Wall are uncharted. The west coast of the lands beyond the Wall in Westeros, such as around the Bay of Ice, are not actually considered to be a continuation of the Shivering Sea but an extension of the Sunset Sea.
The Shivering Sea becomes extremely dangerous to cross during winter, due to severe storms and also to icebergs and other cold-weather dangers. The northernmost parts - roughly starting at the same latitude as the Wall in Westeros - are dangerous and filled with sea ice, but south of this the Shivering Sea is rich with fish and whales and is plied by many fishing fleets from both Westeros and Essos.
The largest island on the sea is Ibben, located almost three thousand miles due east of Skagos. Ibben is home to folk who make their trade from fishing and whaling, selling their catches in the Free Cities and the ports of northeastern Westeros. It is the second largest island in the known world, behind only Great Moraq in the Jade Sea.
The western reaches of the Shivering Sea are the richest fishing grounds in the known world: roughly a triangle from where it joins the Narrow Sea between Braavos and the Vale, up the west coast of Westeros (including the Bite and the Three Sisters) to around Skagos and he eastern end of the Wall, and east to around the mouth of the Sarne River (a sizable distance east of Lorath, roughly at the same line of longitude as the western side of Slaver's Bay).
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