floe
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Every collision removes some of the energy supplied by the wind and reduces how far a floe can travel before it strikes another piece of ice.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Members of the public alerted the local authorities when they saw a man going onto an ice floe to approach the animal.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024
The rescues failed, and four people fell into the water before being taken back to the floe to warm up in a shelter, the sheriff’s office wrote.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2023
Frederik Bussmann took water samples from the edge of an ice floe on the Arctic Ocean last month.Credit...
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
The floe beneath Patience Camp cracked again and again over the next several days.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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