floe
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Every collision removes some of the energy supplied by the wind and reduces how far a floe can travel before it strikes another piece of ice.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Members of the public alerted the local authorities when they saw a man going onto an ice floe to approach the animal.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024
In late December, more than 100 people had to be rescued from an ice floe that broke free from a fishing area on a northern Minnesota lake.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
The rescues failed, and four people fell into the water before being taken back to the floe to warm up in a shelter, the sheriff’s office wrote.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2023
The men lay down to sleep on a floe that rose and fell at least a foot with the swell, and some of them felt seasick after so long on a motionless, frozen ocean.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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