Statistically significant correlations are demonstrated between annual mean column ozone data collected at mid‐latitude sites [Kerr, 1991] and mean annual and winter sea ice extents east of Greenland and in the Barents and Kara Seas. These results are discussed with reference to the locations of the correlated parameters relative to the “Basic Pattern” of stratosphere‐solar flux correlations [Labitzke and van Loon, 1992]. Possibilities for underlying linkage mechanisms are considered and related to recent decreasing hemispheric ozone level