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Winter ice pack consists of a diverse mix of ice of different thicknesses and floe sizes, and of open water in leads.
While a few savvy anglers carry flares, stoves, and tents, the majority are ill-prepared for hours or days stuck on a drifting ice floe.
They hauled the lifeboats across the ice for the next four days and stopped on a floe of ice which they christened Ocean Camp.
The cylindrically hulled Healy drove up on top of the massive floe until the heft of the boat sent dozens of cracks spidering across the surface.
There is one particular star that was used by hunters when starting to head home after having been at the floe edge.
What has been a surprise to everyone, and forced a quick survey by the helicopter, was a 16-km-wide ice floe.
The women would go seal hunting while their husbands went out whaling to the floe edge.
Oil, entrapped in ice, would eventually reach the floe edge and moving-ice habitats.
It is jumping from ice floe to ice floe, announcing programs here, handing out cheques there and holding photo ops.
Not that Western civilization has never embraced the mythical Inuit practice of leaving the old out on an ice floe.
As part of the expedition, the floe is the object of a several week investigation by glaciologists, biologists, oceanographers and meteorologists.
A rogue ice floe, about 15 km wide and 10 km long with multi-year ice, proved the point about the thicker stuff.
It seems like such a long time ago that we ran into that rogue ice floe that had us fearing a very rough passage about now.
Of the 37 trails, 23 correspond to traditional, well-traveled routes, while the trail from Igloolik to the floe edge varies slightly from year to year.
According to one report posted on the Internet, a killer whale lunged completely out of the water, stranding itself on an ice floe as it grabbed a seal.
Well, you assemble comrades from your orca pod a few hundred feet from the ice floe.
Shackleton ordered the crew to abandon the sinking ship and make camp on a nearby ice floe.
When the ice suddenly cracks, Fred finds himself alone in the fishing shack on a drifting ice floe.
En route to the South Pole, the ship was grounded in an ice floe.
There have been recent incidents, such as that Inuit teenager on the ice floe in the north, and so on.
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In a few seconds he had snaked the sled to 242 the edge of the ice floe on which he stood.
A few miles from Petersburg we saw the first ice floe with its deep marine coloring, floating slowly towards the open sea.
She appeared about a quarter of a mile off or more, at the edge of the floe.
The current continued the wrong way and the floe upon which they were drifting carried them toward Baffin Bay.
The whale was killed, and made fast to the floe, waiting for the return of the ship.
This meant that we were caught in the ice floe with no means of getting out!
If the Broken Hill suffered further catastrophe, which did not seem likely, its fragments would fall upon the floe.
The freshness of the bear's tracks is proof that it had not drifted on some ice floe from remote parts of the Arctic basin.
So he rose some ninety feet, and finally arrived at the underside of the ice floe.
He turned a bright face on her as he struck out for the edge of the other ice floe.
She must have been caught in the floe before she could make her way into harbour for shelter.
To get through this floe, it was necessary to form a channel with the ice-saws.
This time of the year the ice floe is melting and that could cause some hazards, crevasses which have opened up.
About seven o'clock we heard a splashing out along the floe.
We towed the carcass up to the edge of the floe, and pulled it up.
Though the floe had been considerable no mishap occurred to them.
One was seen at some distance from a floe, in which there was a crack.
She at last rose close to a floe, when we all rushed in upon her.
They were adrift on the ice floe, which was steadily taking them seaward.
They pounded in solemnly, the waves breaking white round them, and advanced on the floe like an old-time fleet under full sail.
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