From the website: "Arctic SDI Geoportal provides access to geospatial data and services available via the Arctic SDI. Specifically, the Arctic SDI Geoportal facilitates the discovery, visualization, evaluation, download and integration of geographic data from a variety of sources for the Arctic.

The purpose of the Geoportal is to support and facilitate monitoring, management and decision making, and support sustainable development in the Arctic.

The Arctic SDI Geoportal includes:

• Reference data, such as the Arctic SDI Topographic Basemap and the Pan-Arctic Digital Elevation Model.
• Thematic data from various sources including themes such as oceans, climatology and geoscientific information. Most of the data covers the Arctic or the involved Arctic countries, but new data with a smaller or larger geographical extent may be accepted.
• Gazetteer Service – The Geoportal allows searching place names via a circumpolar gazetteer.
• Metadata Catalouge – to search for Arctic data
• Tools to create embedded interactive maps to any website.