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What is an ice floe?

What is an ice floe? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.
  2. An ice dam (ice jam), a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river.
  3. An ice stream (ice flow), a type of fast moving glacier
  4. A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field.
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Shackleton ordered the crew to abandon the sinking ship and make camp on a nearby ice floe.
It is jumping from ice floe to ice floe, announcing programs here, handing out cheques there and holding photo ops.
Eventually, the researchers decided to settle for the best ice floe they could find.
A rogue ice floe, about 15 km wide and 10 km long with multi-year ice, proved the point about the thicker stuff.
When it is turned on, it glows softly, like an ice floe illuminated from within.
Since then the ice floe holding both cameras has drifted about 375 miles south.

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