pack ice
Example Sentences
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But they hunt for food within the pack ice – sea ice floes that move with the wind or ocean currents and may merge.
From Salon
They compare the apparently relatively recent activity to the way fragments of pack ice jostle around in the sea in Earth's polar regions.
From BBC
The berg is now floating freely on the Weddell Sea, a large bay in the western Antarctic where explorer Ernest Shackleton once lost his ship, the Endurance, to pack ice.
From Scientific American
But if the pack ice doesn’t recede in time for the migration, no Newfoundland capelin that year.
From Washington Times
Three decades ago, ice that was at least four years old made up about a third of the Arctic Ocean pack ice at the end of winter.
From New York Times
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