“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.”

“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.”

“These rotations further suggest that forces acting on the nearshore edges of large floes behave differently from those acting on offshore edges.”

“The curious bearded seal and harp seal birth their pups nearby ice floes or merely bask in the warmth of the midnight sun.”

“It is so big it has blocked wind and water currents that break up ice floes in McMurdo Sound during the Antarctic summer.”