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drift ice |
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drift ice [′drift ‚īs] (oceanography) Sea ice that has drifted from its place of formation. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Igloolik's walrus hunters face similar perils, as a sudden shift in the wind direction from the south/southeast to the north/northwest on an outgoing tide would strand them on drifting ice. It will be surrounded by breakwaters as protection against drifting ice. Global warming was the last thing on the minds of researchers who began probing the Arctic in 1937, when Soviet scientists spent nine months living in an eiderdown tent on a drifting ice floe. |
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