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The incident unfolded a day after a U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued two people from an ice floe in Saginaw Bay, Michigan.
—CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
Icy Repose by Sue Flood A Weddell seal reclines on an ice floe in Neko Harbor, an inlet on the Antarctic Peninsula.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
Case in point: Orcas in the Atlantic have been observed working together to create waves that dislodge seals from ice floes.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Expedition participant and documentary executive producer Dan Snow holding Shackleton's book, South, atop an ice floe.
—Allegra Rosenberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined above
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“Ice floe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20floe. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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ice floe
noun
: a flat free mass of floating sea ice
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