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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.
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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.
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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.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Expedition participant and documentary executive producer Dan Snow holding Shackleton's book, South, atop an ice floe.
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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.
Kids Definition
ice floe
noun
: a flat free mass of floating sea ice
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