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• They have been recorded up to forty and even fifty miles in length, and they have been called floe bergs, because it was supposed that they froze first as ordinary sea-ice and increased by subsequent additions from below. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
• These rotations further suggest that forces acting on the nearshore edges of large floes behave differently from those acting on offshore edges.
• It is so big it has blocked wind and water currents that break up ice floes in McMurdo Sound during the Antarctic summer.
• After a further reconnaissance the ice ahead proved quite unnegotiable, so at 8.30 p.m. last night, to the intense disappointment of all, instead of forging ahead, we had to retire half a mile so as to get on a stronger floe, and by 10 p.m. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
• This choice allowed us to travel comfortably with the wind at our backs while viewing the constant vista of mountains and valleys, the ice-speckled Atlantic Ocean in the distance dotted with floes of drift ice from Quebec and Labrador.
• The book features lots of colour photos and mostly Inuit writers' tips on everything from dogsledding and walrus watching to luxury cruises and the dangers of ice floes.
• During the course of the voyage he made close to eighty oil sketches and numerous pencil drawings of ice in the form of icebergs, glaciers, packs, and floes under various conditions of light and atmosphere.
• In the installation, Acconci literally pushed the envelope into billowing floes that waltzed visitors through space.
• For anyone with eyes to see and a television to be parked in front of by benignly neglectful eighties parents Floella is of course best known for her exuberantly dungareed presenting work on Playschool and Playaway. Film | guardian.co.uk
• Spot leopard seals on ice floes, and vast rookeries of penguins and the odd albatross. Times, Sunday Times