He described the white stripe as representing the glaciers and ice cap , which cover more than NUMBER@1 % of the island ; the red stripe , the ocean ; the red semicircle , the sun , with its bottom part sunk in the ocean ; and the white semicircle , the icebergs and pack ice .

He described the white stripe as representing the glaciers and ice cap ; the red stripe , the ocean ; the red semicircle , the fjords ; and the white semicircle , the icebergs and pack ice .
