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ice floe

NOUN
  1. a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea

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  • It is so big it has blocked wind and water currents that break up ice floes in McMurdo Sound during the Antarctic summer.
  • 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.
  • Spot leopard seals on ice floes, and vast rookeries of penguins and the odd albatross. Times, Sunday Times
  • Next, send them out on to the ice floes of the frozen Baltic and get them to shout - in choral unison - at a stranded 10,000-ton ice breaking vessel, and you have got something called Mieskuoro Huutaja (Men's Choir Shouters) ... a new art form, and it is taking parts of the world by arctic storm. Boing Boing: February 1, 2004 - February 7, 2004 Archives
  • I still support marooning Broder on an ice floe and pushing him out to sea. Matthew Yglesias » Credit Where Due
  • Every spring for over 100 years, Newfoundland men had gone sealing, aware of the dangers from ice floes and storms.
  • Many of these ice floes are the result of the berg calving which is taking place in the chest cavity. Impossible Places
  • Sea ice is frozen salt water, and when natural forces break it into pieces, the larger ones are called not icebergs but ice floes.
  • I saw walruses and heard their grunts as they lumbered slowly off their ice floes.
  • He thought of Shackleton who, when forced to lighten his load on the ice floes, would not jettison his banjo.
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