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pack ice






pack ice   
noun

Definition of pack ice

: sea ice formed into a mass by the crushing together of pans, floes, and brash



Recent Examples on the Web


//While the ship was lodged in pack ice for more than a year in Victoria Strait, the crew likely would have taken the propeller up and boarded over the ship's glass skylights, Harris said.
— Megan Gannon, Smithsonian, "Divers Get an Eerie First Look Inside the Arctic Shipwreck of the HMS Terror," 30 Aug. 2019
//The ship got stuck in pack ice, which closed in around its hull.
— Tim Jarvis, Quartz, "Ernest Shackleton’s story teaches us leadership—and also how to fight climate change," 23 Aug. 2019
//On day seven of the expedition, our pilot, Martin, takes us a full 50 miles north of the ships, to where the ice floes turn to solid pack ice.
— Christian Åslund, National Geographic, "Melting ice may be a boon for some Arctic whales—then a bust," 2 July 2019
//His mission revealed fundamental facts about the mysterious Arctic Ocean, including its depth, the enormity of its pack ice, and the currents that move heat, water, and ice across the top of the world.
— Eli Kintisch, Science | AAAS, "Arctic researchers will lock this ship in ice for a year to study the changing polar region," 20 Aug. 2019
//In the 19th century, just getting to Greenland’s coast by sea was fraught with enormous risks: Approaching the island, ships would sometimes be immobilized for months, their hulls creaking under the mighty squeeze of pack ice closing in.
— Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Washington Post, "Exploring Greenland’s ice, then uncovering its warnings about the climate," 18 July 2019
//In the 19th century, just getting to Greenland’s coast by sea was fraught with enormous risks: Approaching the island, ships would sometimes be immobilized for months, their hulls creaking under the mighty squeeze of pack ice closing in.
— Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, chicagotribune.com, "‘The Ice at the End of the World’ is melting: Book explores Greenland and the warning it raises for global climate change," 24 July 2019
//Females haul out onto pack ice to give birth and nurse their pups.
— Craig Welch, National Geographic, "A top Antarctic predator has switched what it eats," 2 May 2019
//They often are found at the outer margins of shifting ice floes and rarely in areas of dense pack ice, NOAA says.
— Washington Post, "At least 60 ice seals found dead along west Alaska coast," 13 June 2019


First Known Use of pack ice

1842, in the meaning defined above



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