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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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Well, you assemble comrades from your orca pod a few hundred feet from the ice floe.
Forced to winter on an ice floe, it was not able to get free until April of the following year.
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.
A rogue ice floe, about 15 km wide and 10 km long with multi-year ice, proved the point about the thicker stuff.
There have been recent incidents, such as that Inuit teenager on the ice floe in the north, and so on.
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.

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