ice floes
Arctic floating sheets
Ice floes are sheets of floating ice, typically found in polar seas or rivers during breakup.
Unlike solid ice sheets attached to land, floes drift freely with currents and wind.
They range from small chunks to expanses miles across: The ship navigated carefully through the ice floes.
Polar bears hunt from ice floes, and the term appears frequently in discussions of Arctic climate change.
- icebergsFloating masses of ice
- calvingIce mass separation
- Arctic OceanEarth's northernmost body of water
- Bering SeaNorth Pacific marginal sea
- polar regionsEarth's coldest latitudes
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- Bering SeaBering Strait, Aleutian Islands, Nome, king crab, snow crab
- White Sea
- AntarcticaSouth Pole, Amundsen, Scott, penguins, glaciology
- ArcticArctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, Arctic wildlife, Arctic exploration, Arctic research
- polar regionsAntarctica, polar bears, Arctic Ocean, glaciers, Arctic
- Frozen landscapesArctic, Antarctic, tundra, glacier, glaciers
ice floesopen water
Unobstructed body navigable freely
open sea · warm currents · clear water · tropical waters · meltwater
ice floeslava flows
Moving volcanic rock
molten rock · thermal vents · hot springs · magma · tropical seas
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