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
Ms Homendy said recovery workers were dealing with deteriorating weather conditions and that the wreckage had landed on an ice floe which is moving at a rate of five miles a day.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
An ice floe detached from the shoreline of Upper Red Lake in Beltrami County, Minnesota, Friday, stranding the 122 ice fishermen on top of it.
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, which Worsley estimated at possibly a million tons, pressed so hard against Endurance that her beams began to buckle and her foremast jerked and shook like a cornstalk in the wind.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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