How To Use pack ice In A Sentence
- Like so many failed expeditions before them, Sir John and his men would be fleeing for their lives, dragging longboats and whalers and hastily clabbered-together sledges across the rotten ice, praying for open leads and then cursing them when the sledges fell through the ice and the contrary winds blew the heavy boats back on the pack ice, leads that meant days and nights of rowing for the starving men. The Terror
- These chunks are not pack ice formed from the frozen sea. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
- But before he could sail into the Beaufort Sea, the ship was blocked by pack ice and forced to winter-over in Prince of Wales Strait along the east coast of Banks Island. HMS Investigator, Ship Lost For More Than 150 Years, Recovered In Canada
- Russia is said to be one of the few countries that might see a net benefit from climate change, in longer growing seasons and by opening lucrative northwest shipping passages as pack ice retreats.
- The annual seal hunt takes place on the pack ice off Greenland.
- Occasionally they even pluck a walrus, beluga whale, or narwhal from the watery depths below the pack ice.
- But most arctic sea ice consists of pack ice, broken sheets moved by wind and ocean currents.
- New observations of "pack ice" killer whales roaming the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula show they dine almost exclusively on Weddell seals, which make up just 15 per cent of the seal population.
- The annual seal hunt takes place on the pack ice off Greenland.
- The annual seal hunt takes place on the pack ice off Greenland.
