ice floe
: a usually large flat free mass of floating sea ice
Recent Examples on the Web
//Two of the tourists were floating in the water, while the other was found on an ice floe.
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Fox News, "3 German tourists in Alaska found dead in glacial lake," 1 Aug. 2019
//They often are found at the outer margins of shifting ice floes.
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Washington Post, "US biologists eye unusual deaths of Alaska ice seals," 12 Sep. 2019
//To find out how much microplastic was in the air, Gerdts and his colleagues analyzed snow collected from ice floes drifting in Fram Strait east of Greenland and from the nearby Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
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Los Angeles Times, "Microplastic in the atmosphere is making its way to the pristine Arctic," 15 Aug. 2019
//Researchers and citizen scientists collected snow from two dozen locations, ranging from remote Arctic ice floes (floating chunks of ice, essentially) and the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard to northern Germany and the Bavarian Alps.
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Matt Simon, WIRED, "Microplastics Are Blowing Into the Pristine Arctic," 14 Aug. 2019
//Tiny bits of plastic have been showing up in unlikely places, including Arctic ice floes.
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Matt Simon, WIRED, "You’ve Been Drinking Microplastics, But Don’t Worry—Yet," 21 Aug. 2019
//They often are found at the outer margins of shifting ice floes and rarely in areas of dense pack ice, NOAA says.
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Washington Post, "At least 60 ice seals found dead along west Alaska coast," 13 June 2019
//Choose the wrong ice floe, and the scientists could end up in Russian waters, where outsiders can't collect data without special permits.
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Anchorage Daily News, "For the biggest Arctic expedition ever, scientists will trap themselves in sea ice," 13 June 2019
//Researchers tested several samples from ice floes in the Arctic region, as well as snow samples from more urban places across Europe.
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Aj Willingham, CNN, "Microplastics are everywhere, even in the Arctic snow," 15 Aug. 2019
First Known Use of ice floe
1819, in the meaning defined above
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