We headed back north of Bridgeman Island in hopes of getting to the relatively ice-free waters of the eastern Bransfield Basin. |
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The extra shelter from the riverside developments saw the walkways stay ice-free last week. |
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In winter, a sunny location will help an electric heater keep the water ice-free. |
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The animals spend most of the winter on pack ice and invariably return to their birthplace to breed in ice-free coastal areas in summer. |
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Canadian and New Zealand scientists have found living microbes in the soil of an ice-free region of Antarctica. |
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Halifax has long been a bustling international port and naval base, as well as being the only ice-free port on Canada's eastern seaboard. |
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Even in the depth of winter, Norway's ports and harbours are usually ice-free. |
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The tree's low, sweeping branches moderate ground-level temperatures in winter, helping keep streams ice-free. |
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Flocks of penguins occasionally appear where they have dipped into the sea from ice-free pockets near the shore. |
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About 13,000 years ago, an ice-free corridor opened up, allowing brown bears to travel south. |
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Water sources may be kept ice-free by an immersible electric heater that goes right into the birdbath water. |
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Weather data were collected during the ice-free season from a meteorological station situated in a central location on the study area. |
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With less krill to go around during the ice-free years, fewer penguins survive to adulthood. |
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By 12,000 years ago, they had made their way south from the interior of Alaska through an ice-free corridor to the high plains of North America. |
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Even with such a low average temperature some tropical portions of the Earth may have remained ice-free. |
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These waterfowl migrate early in spring and move northward from their wintering grounds as soon as wetlands become ice-free. |
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The loss of ice coverage has created additional ice-free habitat for Adélie penguins. |
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While the lake was ice-free, surface vessels kept the lifeline in operation, and pipelines and electric cables were laid under the water. |
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In just a few decades, the same ship may be able to sail all the way to an ice-free North Pole. |
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They nest in colonies in scree slopes along ice-free Antarctic and sub-Antarctic coasts, where they lay a single egg in a natural cavity. |
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One such spot is the Labyrinth, where deep trenches are carved into Wright Valley, a relatively ice-free area of the continent. |
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The remainder is ice-free because of either relatively warm temperatures or scant snowfall. |
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Tourism is Skagway's leading industry, with cruise ships and ferries calling at the ice-free port. |
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The port has a limited shipping season during its ice-free period that generally runs from the end of July to early November. |
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Numerical climate models predict that the Northwest Passage and the Arctic Ocean may become ice-free in summer during this century. |
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With its pipelines and ice-free ports Latvia is a transit country for gas and oil originating in Russia. |
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He became president of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway, which sought an ice-free ocean terminus. |
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Lithuania's ice-free Baltic port meant that it was a significant transit route for trade between the former Soviet Union and the West. |
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Most deglaciated areas are ice-free all year, although glaciated fjords are at least partially covered with glacial ice most of the year. |
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The ice-free seas will further exacerbate the melt, as the reduced reflection of light will result in the dark seas absorbing more warmth. |
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Like nacreous clouds, these usually form slightly above the troposphere, in the dry and ice-free stratosphere. |
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Jason's onboard altimeter precisely maps the surface height of 95 percent of Earth's ice-free oceans every 10 days to an accuracy of about 1.33 inches. |
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Large diesel generators must produce all electricity locally, using fuel delivered by a river barge during the summer months when the Yukon is ice-free. |
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Figure 5 illustrates changes in values in the photic zone of Robert-Bourassa, Opinaca and Caniapiscau reservoirs during the ice-free season. |
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The spring migration, as with most ducks, is more prolonged than the fall migration, since the birds must wait for more northern water areas to become ice-free. |
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Sandford is an ice-free harbour in an area subject to harsh weather conditions. |
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It moves from place to place seeking ice-free water and food. |
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Belhadan's location as the northernmost ice-free port of the Empire helped explain its importance, but it wasn't so far south that drift ice or icebergs were unheard of. |
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Churchill's shipping route is ice-free for five months a year. |
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Crucially, unlike Nikolaevsk, Vladivostok was ice-free. |
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You can stop feeding goldfish in the ponds but make sure if it ices over that you keep a small area ice-free to let oxygen in. |
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The Churchill shipping route is ice-free for about four months a year. |
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By remaining open in winter or becoming ice-free early in spring, polynyas serve as feeding, mating, spawning and over-wintering grounds for a diverse and populous bird and mammal community. |
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New research suggests the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free by 2015, with devastating consequences for the world. |
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Gunning Cove is located in the approach to Shelburne Harbour and is ice-free, open year round. |
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No information is provided to determine if routes were established to identify other potential ice-free areas or if the authors considered whether they had covered most potential areas. |
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The eastern and western approaches have become reliably ice-free in summer under historical climatic conditions, whereas in the central part summer sea ice has been persistent. |
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The cost to establish annual surveys in the eastern and western Arctic and monthly surveys in the ice-free Great Lakes and Gulf of St. Lawrence would be about 150K per year. |
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There is some evidence that the summer heat stored in the newly ice-free seas north of Siberia may induce shifts in the atmosphere's circulation, when the heat is given up to the air in subsequent autumns and winters. |
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That would have meant a fully re-vegetated ice-free corridor. |
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Earlier ice breakup is also responsible for declining polar bear populations in the western Hudson Bay region, by depriving them of critical time to prey on seals and fatten up to survive the ice-free months without food. |
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Many people think that penguins and seals are the most common organisms in Antarctica, leaving out the abundant micro-organisms that prevail in the ice-free areas of the continent. |
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Within their embrace, the rackety calls of geese echoed from ice-free ponds, bald eagles wheeled in the sky, and deer leaped in the brush. |
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These faster cooling rates allow successful ice-free cooling without penetrating cryoprotectants. |
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The deglaciation patterns and archeological evidences found in southern Alberta do not enable a good correlation between the final opening of the ice-free corridor and the age of the sites. |
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These mountains, along with the Barn Range to the east, the Alaska Brooks Range to the west and the Old Crow Flats to the south, were not glaciated but formed a vast ice-free land mass called Beringia. |
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There was not much time left as the Bering Strait is only ice-free for a few weeks of the year. |
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The four maps depict, in a general way, the average dates on which freshwater bodies in Canada become completely ice-covered in the fall, and become completely ice-free in the spring. |
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The Balchen pass lake was ice-free despite the bone-chilling cold. |
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The land that is now Vuntut National Park was once part of Beringia, a huge land mass in the Yukon, Alaska, and northeastern Russia that remained generally ice-free during the time of the last ice age. |
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A natural gas pipeline connects the Kenai gas fields to Anchorage, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline delivers oil from Prudhoe Bay to ice-free tanker terminals at Valdez and to refineries near Fairbanks. |
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Whereas most other species became extinct, the alpine flower Saponaria pumila survived many years on ice-free mountain peaks called nunataks. |
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The flip side of a longer frost-free season is a shorter frost season, and that is a benefit to governments that have to keep roads ice-free and for individuals and transportation companies that have to deal with ice hazards. |
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In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. |
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All this has changed though, making walking and driving a bit more of a gingersome exercise, though fortunately there were ice-free patches in between. |
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