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ice floe

a sheet of ice, of variable size, floating in the sea

ice floe

[′īs ‚flō]

(oceanography)

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"Bears get here on the ice floes washed this way," he said.

'Lost' polar bear carried away on ice floe to village 450 miles from home; The polar near has been named Umka by villagers after it was carried away from its Arctic habitat on an ice floe

The ice floe was really big, and I am very thankful to it as it kept me all this time," he smiled.

90yo Naryn resident sails on ice floe for 6 hours on Naryn River

I first heard about it in 1977, vague rumours about killer whales getting seals off of ice floes.

I love the polar bears, penguins and seals, boss, but, well, you know, those birds of paradise and tropical fish aren't going to film themselves; SAY FREEZE TOP CAMERAMAN'S JOB PLEA; Polar lensman dreams of sun

The break-up of the ice floe poses a threat not only to the station itself and the 16 scientists working there, but could also cause environmental pollution in the area near Canada where it is drifting, the ministry said.

Russia's New Arctic Platform to Cost $223mln

When the rescue operation began, some of those stranded were just 300 metres form the shore but the ice floe was moving so quickly that the gap had widened to about 2-and-a-half miles from the shore by the end of the operation.

Hundreds rescued after being stranded on ice floe

The emergency services said they received a report at midday that an ice floe was drifting into the Sea of Okhotsk with hundreds of fishermen on it.

675 fishermen rescued from ice floe; WORLDBULLETINS

The bears' feeding strategy involves swimming from the mainland to and between offshore ice floes, poaching seals as they come up to breathe at holes in the ice.

Dear EarthTalk: I read a heart-wrenching story of a polar bear that swam 400 miles with its cub on its back in search of an ice floe to rest on. It survived but its cub did not. What can be done to save these magnificent creatures? Is it too late?

More than 130 fisherman stranded for up to four hours on a miles-wide ice floe that broke away from Lake Erie's shoreline were plucked to safety.

130 stranded fishermen rescued from breakaway ice; INTERNATIONAL

But suppose Nanook is in his shack on an ice floe drifting off the Siberian coast and observes a full Moon just after midnight on February 1st, local Siberian time.

Exceptions, exceptions

A sampling of topics: an inverse approach for airfoil design, stability of meridionally-flowing grounded abyssal currents in the ocean, macroscopic conservation equation based model for surface tension driven flow, new ways of fluidization in a centrifugal field, analytical investigation of ice floe drift in the marginal ice zone, numerical simulations of variable density starting jets, boiler safety improvement for safety controls utilizing flow measurement for input, and long axisymmetrical waves in a viscous ocean around a circular island.

Advances in fluid mechanics VII; proceedings

ARCTIC: Twenty Russian scientists have been rescued from their camp on an ice floe in the Arctic that was melting faster than expected, a spokesman for the expedition said yesterday.

Ice timing for boffins

After a while, he jumped from the ice floe to a snowbank and began to walk home.