| 单词 | floe |
| 例句 | In the distance the ocean was azure blue beneath the ice floes, reflecting the great arc of the sky above. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But he allowed himself to be pulled along as they lurched over the black crevice to the next floe, Hazel conscious of how clumsy she must look. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z At the moment they were on a very large, level floe, more than a half a mile in diameter. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The ice was so thin in some places that the heavy lifeboats cracked the floes and formed leads of seawater. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Their floe was soon dirty with blubber soot, dog droppings, sealskins, penguin heads, and other garbage, but the men all adjusted to a new set of standards without complaint. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z There wasn’t another good, solid, flat floe in sight, and Shackleton felt they could not do better for a camping place. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Shackleton hauled on his end of the rope, but one man’s strength was not equal to the force of the ocean pulling the floes apart. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Mighty blocks of ice, gripped between meeting floes, rose slowly until they jumped like cherrystones squeezed between thumb and finger,” Shackleton wrote. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She landed at the edge of the next floe and slipped. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z At first they could see nothing, and then from the east-southeast came a thick flow of ice on a riptide current, like a wide river of tumbling, churning chunks and floes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The fortress was on an island—or perhaps it was simply a particularly large ice floe—and Kaede was rowing toward it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The memories rose out of him like floes of ice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The next floe was a giant step away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z But no sooner had they warmed themselves with the milk then the wind shifted and brought dangerous chunks of ice crowding and bumping up against their floe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z All morning they scanned the ocean around them, searching for open water as their floe was whittled down to the size of a tennis court. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The days continued to wear on, and their floe continued to erode. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z After two hours of backbreaking labor, hauling the boats through wet, heavy snow, detouring around piles of broken floe, they were only one mile from Endurance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z 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. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She appeared on his ice floe like the sun. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She saw the azure sea broken with ice floes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Some of the men were morbidly convinced that a killer whale would crash upward through their dwindling floe, tossing them all into the water and picking them off one by one. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Then the men and dogs could take advantage of the wide, flat floes to get some exercise. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The wind howled around each mound and hillock and floe, piling up enormous drifts of snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In addition, the accumulation of black soot and debris around the camp was soaking up the heat of the sun and warming the floe, turning the surface to slush. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z During the warm days when the men went about their business on the floe, the softening ice frequently gave way underfoot, plunging them into cold water up to their waists. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z With towropes joining the three boats together, they cast off and rowed wearily from one floe to another throughout the night, trying to find some shelter. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z And then he was up and lying on the floe, shuddering. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z If the pack disintegrated too soon, they would be unable to launch the boats and maneuver in the jumble of broken and grinding ice, and unable to find a floe large enough to camp on. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His mother came down in a hired auto, in a fur suit like an arctic explorer’s, and saw him off in a twenty-five mile wind and a steady drove of ice floes like dirty sheep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The floe beneath Patience Camp cracked again and again over the next several days. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In a desperate attempt to keep the pressure off the ship, Shackleton ordered some of the men over the side to hack away at the floes, with the axes, and picks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As the men struggled out of their tents, they saw two cracks running through their floe; the edges rose and fell in a strong swell. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They sailed into the shelter of a large floe and moored to it. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As the light began to fade, Shackleton began looking out for a good, strong floe to camp on. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They stepped from Jack’s floe to the next one. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z When the surface of the floe was firm enough, the men would exercise by marching back and forth, always on the lookout for predatory leopard seals. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z On one occasion, when Endurance was moored to a floe, the crew hauled out the motor sledge. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The floe was now a mere fifty yards across. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As Orde-Lees had reached the opposite side of the floe, the leopard seal burst up out of the water in front of him, jaws agape. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z By April 3, it was only 200 yards across, surrounded by open water and continually bumping into other floes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Huge blocks of ice tumbled out of its path, and large floes were churned into chunks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Even throwing them into the oceans does not work a change, for the water freezes around them, and in the ice floes they come back on the shores. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On February 20, the crew awoke to find that their floe had been invaded by an enormous flock of Adélie penguins migrating north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The stomach-jump of possible love is nothing compared to the ice floes that block up her veins now. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Their floe was continuing to decay rapidly, so the Boss made a decision on December 21. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “But it was a sight we did not like, for the floes were thudding against our floeberg with increasing violence. Our temporary home was being swept away at an unpleasantly rapid rate.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The ice floe they were on had split. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Bergs and floes larger than the ship rose up and tumbled over like children’s toys. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The Boss leaned over to grab the sodden bag and heaved it—and Holness—out of the freezing water and onto the ice, just as the two edges of the floe crashed back together. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Then, during the early morning hours of March 28, their floe split in half. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The next day, they retreated to a large, old floe that seemed solid, and there they pitched camp, but they soon discovered it was not as secure as they had hoped. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The shift in weight caused the ice floe to dip into the black water, and Jack fell back down. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Bergs and broken floes were jumbled together between increasingly large leads of open water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The girl’s face tightened, and she took a couple of uneasy steps away from the edge of the ice floe, squeezed her arms to her sides, and leapt over the dark crevice. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Humpbacks and killer whales spouted in the distance, and the water was dotted with ice floes on which fat, blinking seals basked in the sun. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It was this gigantic sign of how Mummy and I are like two ice floes, passing each other, cold and silent. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As the winds built up speed across the tumbled floes, the frozen sea began to shift and creak and press against itself. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The floe, which Worsley estimated at possibly a million tons, pressed so hard against Endurance that her beams began to buckle and her foremast jerked and shook like a cornstalk in the wind. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Finding a small floe near an open lead, they jumped onto the floe and began paddling around with ski poles like boys on a raft. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z With the advance of the spring, their floe was eroding at the edges. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z All their hopes were now pinned on getting safely to the open ocean before the floe they camped on broke into pieces. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His home was a small ice floe in the middle of an inky lake. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z On January 1, Orde-Lees was skiing near the edge of the floe when a twelve-foot-long, fanged leopard seal lunged up out of the water and began humping toward him at astonishing speed. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Jack’s floe had cracked into four pieces now. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In the darkness at the edge of the floe, killer whales spouted gustily. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In the distance, they could see the ocean: intense, cold blue dotted with ice floes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Helmuth hears it in the crackling gray ice floes that drift through the rivers and narrow canals. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Once all the men and gear were safe on the same piece of floe with the boats, they began to relax, only to have another crack split directly under the James Caird. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Huge, lopsided remnant bergs bobbed and heaved in the waves, and small chunks of broken floe knocked and scraped along the sides of the Caird. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z We could pole the skiff down to his house, maneuvering around the debris as we would ice floes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The boats cracked loudly against the ice, grating and scraping on the edge of the floe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As floes pressed against her, leaks sprang in the hold. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z After sledding the James Caird across to the larger piece of floe, the men jumped to safety with the rest of the crew. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Ice crackled off his clothes and fell tinkling onto the floe as the rest of the crew drew the two halves of the floe together again by hauling on a rope. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Bobbing blue ice and crumbling floes rose and fell with the waves all around them as they brought the boats back onto a course for the northwest. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They continued pulling all afternoon, still dodging through open leads and around large floes and bergs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Their new floe was smaller and less stable. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As they slept, the gale increased, battering other floes against their berg and chipping away at its edges. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They depicted suburban villas and Egyptian ruins that they had actually seen, and imagined views of polar ice floes and the devastation of an earthquake in Lisbon. Antiques: Paper Mills, Toscanini and Panoramic Art and Photographs 2013-01-24T22:46:54Z Jumping between the floes is a young person’s game. Life on the ice: one last hunt for Norway's sealers 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z You know that painting — a dozen men in a rowboat breaking through the ice floes, the general facing left in the breaking light. Jazz & Colors: The Masterworks Edition Takes Over the Metropolitan 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z As I step onto the floe edge where waves of snow and uplifts of ice meet the open sea, the artist’s description of her seasonal landscape lingers. Making Art on Top of the World 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z One hundred and thirty-two sealers were trapped on the Labrador ice floes in a vicious snowstorm that spring. Read Your Way Through Newfoundland 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Filmmaker Luc Jacquet captures the harsh conditions and spectacular beauty that surround the penguins as they trek 70 miles to a secure ice floe. “Drew! Barry! More Power!”: The 10 best penguin movies ever made 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z They look at you from behind inscrutable eyes, aloof and moderately annoyed, jawlines jutting like ice floes. Jim Nutt’s Art Remains a Mystery. Even to Him. 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Visually, there is quite a bit of slipping and sliding and falling and careening in a landscape of jagged rocks, spiky ice floes and state-of-the-art computer-generated water. Review: ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift,’ With Ray Romano 2012-07-12T13:54:00Z She grimaces at Hollywood’s new young thing as if staring at the ice floe she’ll be pushed out to sea on. Review: ‘Feud: Bette and Joan,’ a Clash of the Gossip Girls 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Later, when I meet him, he tells me that jumping between the floes is a young person’s game. Life on the ice: one last hunt for Norway's sealers 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z There are also some amusing scenes of a seal "prairie dogging" in the water, or overhead shots of polar bears on ice floes or swimming. In the stunning yet grim "The Last Ice," melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z The ship rattled and shuddered as it entered the Arctic Ocean ice pack, crushing and plowing through the floes. How global warming has changed what it’s like to travel to the North Pole 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z What hope is on offer seems about as likely to succeed as a starving bear trapped on an ice floe. Naomi Klein’s Chilling View of Warming in This Changes Everything 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The initial male bear had been joined by a second, picking his way among the ice floes, sniffing the air and investigating the unfamiliar aromas that were gently wafting their way toward him. How global warming has changed what it’s like to travel to the North Pole 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z It's the championship of each other, and they're two men on an ice floe, and to each the other is Ahab's white whale. Ken Burns on his latest, "Muhammad Ali": "What's so interesting is what an avatar of love he was" 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Even so, it is too much for Murphy to suggest that Scalia, for all his years “singing in the shower” and “alone on his ice floe,” has been anything short of supremely influential. ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Maher has no illusions that HBO will keep “Real Time” on forever but notes that comedy is one of the few fields where they don’t push the elderly out on an ice floe. Bill Maher is smug, outspoken and just might get a congressman voted out of office Shackleton and the crew set up camp on the ice floe and drifted helplessly with the currents for the next four months. 11 facts about Sir Ernest Shackleton 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z In one photo, ice floes separate like shattered glass — a world of blue and white, cracking apart. ‘You Can’t Stand in Louisiana and See a Glacier’ 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The artist has previously shown a work in which white pieces hovered above the floor, evoking glacial ice that breaks and detaches from larger floes as the Earth warms. Review | In the galleries: A virtual visit to Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, they appear as border guards patrolling a wall, huddle like penguins on a melting floe or lie stacked in a morgue. Sutra | Dance review 2010-03-17T22:00:00Z We get bursts of radio static through whipping snow, a glimpse of a man on an ice floe. Storms Crash Through These Two Novels, Leaving Humans in Their Wake 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z “To be undecided in 2020, to me, you literally would have to be on an ice floe,” says Tom Nichols, a national security professor and senior adviser for the Lincoln Project. In a year of political anger, undecided voters inspire a special kind of scorn 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Even more alarming, scientists found four polar-bear carcasses floating in the sea; they had apparently drowned while attempting to swim from one ice floe to the next. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z The action tends sleepily glacial: The dimly lit set suggests an ice floe, which the characters cross as if trapped in a grayscale dream. At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z “Karl, Karl, Karl,” she trilled, and for a moment one was not in Paris at all but on a floe in the Arctic Ocean, on a fragment of ice snapped off the glacial shelf. Fashion Diary: Wrapping Up Fashion Week in Paris, With an Iceberg and a Wake 2010-03-12T20:20:00Z At this time the Arctic was buried under kilometers of glacial ice sheets, and so marine mammals were pushed southwards to areas of ice floes and more open water. Atlantic walrus more vulnerable than ever to Arctic warming 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Until moments before, it had been resting on an ice floe deep in an Antarctic channel. These orcas have mastered wave washing. It’s spine tingling to watch. 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z What it is not, however, is any kind of gentle nudge in the direction of the nearest ice floe. Pregnancy books are everywhere. Why are there so few menopause books? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z It seems hard to believe that climate and biodiversity are still treated separately, given that images like starving polar bears on melting ice floes have brought increased attention to these connections. Environmental Policies Must Manage Climate Change and Biodiversity as One 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z According to satellite imagery, it sat idle in the bay as winter drew near and the waters around it froze into vast ice floes. How China let a ship banned for ferrying North Korean coal go rogue 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Up until 2007, they observed sea ice at a variety of thicknesses and ages, often with bumps and ridges that come from older ice floes being packed together. Arctic ice has seen an ‘irreversible’ thinning since 2007, study says 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The orcas, having identified their target, form a battle line and start charging toward the floe. These orcas have mastered wave washing. It’s spine tingling to watch. 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z The ministry said earlier that about 50 fishermen could be on a torn off ice floe near the village of Lesnoye that lies on the eastern coast of Sakhalin. Rescuers evacuate 40 fishermen from ice floe on Russia's Sakhalin 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Only the Weddell Sea remains dominated by frozen floes. Antarctica sea-ice hits new record low 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Even the brightest blues tend to be frigid, whether gleaming in wind-chilled skies or literally frozen in ice floes. Review | In the galleries: The harsh beauties of a glacial season 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z But in more recent years, ice floes have been smoother and have more uniform thickness, an indication that they are younger and shorter-lived. Arctic ice has seen an ‘irreversible’ thinning since 2007, study says 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z In deep winter, some tourists come to eat salmon roe and scallops and see the ice floes that lock in the city’s modest port. Japan’s Business Owners Can’t Find Successors. This Man Is Giving His Away. 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was based on her years in Cincinnati, on the banks of the river over whose ice floe Stowe’s fictional Eliza fled. Opinion | In unsettled times, look to Midwestern values 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Increased storminess helps to break up floes and push them north into warmer waters to melt out. Antarctica sea-ice hits new record low 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z But they hunt for food within the pack ice — sea ice floes that move with the wind or ocean currents and may merge. The greatest threat emperor penguins face is climate change 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Overall, ice floes are spending 37 percent less time in the Arctic before escaping through the Fram Strait to melt in the Atlantic, or about 2.7 years on average since 2007, the researchers found. Arctic ice has seen an ‘irreversible’ thinning since 2007, study says 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Oleh said the Russians were running short of time, as January would bring ice floes down the Dnipro that could block ferry operations. Ukrainian forces brace for bloody fight for Kherson 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z These melt ponds confuse the radar systems, making it difficult for them to differentiate ice from ocean and to accurately measure the thickness of ice floes. Scientists Can Now Monitor Thinning Sea Ice Year-Round 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The floes can develop as far north as conditions will allow. Antarctica sea-ice hits new record low 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z He said he altered the normal course through Prince William Sound after reports of ice floes from the Columbia Glacier entering the shipping lanes. Joseph Hazelwood, Exxon Valdez captain in oil spill disaster, dies at 75 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z It was on a beeline for Svalbard, the archipelago between Norway and the North Pole, and heading for the thin floes girding the Arctic’s vulnerable pack of summer sea ice. Arctic stormchasers brave giant cyclones to understand how they chew up sea ice 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z In many places, the surface of Europa looks just as we would expect for a thick layer of ice that was broken up into giant icebergs and ice floes and then refrozen in place. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The researchers applied a machine learning technique to satellite data to distinguish the ice floes. Scientists Can Now Monitor Thinning Sea Ice Year-Round 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z And because the Antarctic has difficulty retaining ice from year to year, its floes are thinner than in the Arctic - generally just one metre or less, versus 3-4m for long-lived ice in the polar north. Antarctica sea-ice hits new record low 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z During World War II, an ice floe unleashed during the spring thaw toppled a German military bridge that been hastily constructed across the waters to aid the Nazi war effort. A bridge to Crimea is a vital Russian link, and a potential Ukrainian target. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Ringed seals bob and dive among the glassy floes. Poem: ‘Vaulted Seeds,’ after the Svalbard Global Seed Vault 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z On October 4, 2019, the Polarstern, a German icebreaker the length of a football field, sidled up to a thick ice floe above the Arctic Circle and turned off its engines. Inside an Arctic Expedition, Natural History of Fragrance, Essays on Places in Peril, and More 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Like an updated Pleistocene woolly mammoth trapped in an ice floe or ancient arthropods caught in tree resin, the plasticized clothing is caught between an industrial past and its faltering present. Review: Artist Kevin Beasley wields resin like amber for trapping life’s transient flies 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The large ice floe comprising the field was as close as possible to the geographic North Pole. Perspective | Submarine pitch: Remembering the first softball game at the North Pole 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z She reluctantly came to view Christianity as “a melting ice floe that the very best minds had abandoned.” Review: Even the Unitarians are divided in Michelle Huneven's new novel, 'Search' 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The edge of an ice floe was illuminated by bow lights piercing the morning darkness of the Bering Sea. Into the ice: A crab boat’s quest for snow crab in a Bering Sea upended by climate change 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z By getting “trapped” in the floe, those onboard will be able to assemble a unique data set. Inside an Arctic Expedition, Natural History of Fragrance, Essays on Places in Peril, and More 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z As we traveled more than 200 miles north of the Aleutian Islands, we first encountered a few small white cubes of “cocktail“ ice, then passed through eight increasingly broader floes, with much bigger chunks. A photographer and not-so sure-footed reporter join a crabbing crew on the Bering Sea 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z The ship drifted amid the floes for more than 10 months before the shifting ice began to crush its hull and the sea finally swallowed it. The Discovery of Shackleton’s Wreck Is as Disquieting as It Is Amazing 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z As the ship approached the Antarctic coastline, it became squeezed among the thick floes of ice covering the Southern Ocean. How Antarctica Has Changed Since Shackleton’s 1915 Shipwreck 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z But the ship became trapped in heavy sea ice in October 1915, and the crew abandoned it and moved everything they could onto their camp on the ice floes. Legendary Shipwreck of Shackleton's Endurance Is Discovered in Antarctic Waters 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z But because we could get back there, we spent the afternoon kayaking and photographing the Weddell seals — which looked like long, overstuffed cigars — that had hauled out on the ice floes. Advancements in polar sailing allow travelers to explore Antarctica’s little-visited areas 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The five include a depiction of a cluster of chrysanthemums inspired by the Japanese print maker Hokusai, a scene of ice floes on the River Seine, and the beach at Dieppe. Magritte classic "Dominion of Light", works by Monet up for auction in London 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Two helicopters aboard the ship have been used to ferry these scientists to ice floes, where ice cores are drilled for later laboratory analysis. The search has begun for an Antarctic pioneer’s lost ship 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Eighteen people have been rescued after becoming stranded on an ice floe in Lake Erie in Ohio, US. Lake Erie: 18 rescued from breakaway floating ice sheet 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Officials said a helicopter from Air Station Detroit noticed a group of people on the floe near Ohio’s Catawba Island at about 1 p.m. 18 rescued after being stranded on ice floe in Lake Erie 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The frozen floes that squeezed, snapped and then swallowed his polar steam yacht in the Weddell Sea between October and November 1915 smother its grave and protect it from discovery. Shackleton's Endurance: The impossible search for the greatest shipwreck 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z “The constant movement inside glaciers damages both bodies and artifacts, and eventually dumps the sad debris at the mouth of the ice floe,” Pilo, of the Glacier Archaeology Program in Norway, said. As Earth warms, old mayhem and secrets emerge from the ice 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “The constant movement inside glaciers damages both bodies and artifacts, and eventually dumps the sad debris at the mouth of the ice floe,” Dr. Pilo, of the Glacier Archaeology Program in Norway, said. As Earth Warms, Human History Is Melting Away 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z At a thick ice floe, the crew gets to disembark for a brief moment of freedom from the vessel confines. Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter’s journey through the Arctic: No ‘ice liberty’ in changing waters 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The helicopter lifted seven people from the floe, and the airboat rescued four others, officials said. 18 rescued after being stranded on ice floe in Lake Erie 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z “Nevermind what that will do to the ice floes, dissolving like ice in your martini here in New York,” Johnson said. 'Death sentence': low-lying nations implore faster action on climate at U.N 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Researchers deployed buoys that will transmit information about ice floes, and the crew aided research to develop a better understanding of the hydrology of the Chukchi Sea. Seattle-based Coast Guard icebreaker returns home after first mission in nearly 40 years to wintertime Arctic 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z About 30 anglers were stranded on one of the floes, he said. Ice floe rescues and highway crashes cap a bad week of winter weather 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z High winds associated with an approaching winter storm pushed the floes further from shore. 66 people rescued from ice floes adrift on Wisconsin bay 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z They’d been in total isolation ever since, making their way, stride by stride, along the increasingly fragile ice floes that form a floating cap over the Arctic Ocean. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z As a consequence, they miss, for example, a great swathe of the central Arctic Ocean and its frozen floes. Polar scientists wary of impending satellite gap 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Finding the right floe proved easier said than done. Curtain falls of history’s biggest Arctic science expedition 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Abandoning the floe for nearly a month affected some of the research, the expedition’s leaders said at the time. After a Year in the Ice, the Biggest-Ever Arctic Science Mission Ends 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z RV Polarstern was on station to document this summer's floes shrink to their second lowest ever extent in the modern era. 'The sea-ice is dying': Historic Arctic trip ends 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z On November 14, a storm arrived, and the men scrambled to find a secure floe. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Shorter autumn days and encroaching cold mean the floes are now starting to regrow. Arctic sea-ice shrinks to near record low extent 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The exchange ultimately took place by sea, with the Polarstern forced to temporarily leave its home floe to conduct the swap. Curtain falls of history’s biggest Arctic science expedition 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z In late July, the day after the team pulled up its remaining instruments, the floe broke up and melted. Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Poignant images of bears on isolated ice floes or roaming land in search of food have been used by conservation groups and others to showcase the need for action to reduce warming. Global Warming Is Driving Polar Bears Toward Extinction, Researchers Say 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z After finding a solid floe to camp on, Ousland hand-bored ice screws at the tent’s corners and set trip wires around its perimeter that would trigger a deafening explosive shell. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Currently, the floes in the far south befuddle efforts to measure their vertical dimension. Europe and US line up to measure Antarctic sea-ice 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Trapped in sea-ice for over 10 months, his Endurance ship drifted around the Weddell Sea until ultimately it was crushed by the floes and dropped to the deep. Will anyone ever find Shackleton's lost ship? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “It is thin and keeps breaking, like all the other floes here in the new Arctic.” Voyagers to the ‘epicenter of global warming’ struggle with bears, storms and thin ice 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The floe “does not look the same” as it did when the ship first arrived, he noted. Frozen in Dwindling Ice, an Historic Expedition Finds a “New Arctic” 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z A passing ice floe hosted a polar bear seemingly just minutes removed from killing a seal, the victim’s blood leaving a crimson trail on the ice. The race to lay claim on the Bering Strait as Arctic ice retreats 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z But without an accurate assessment of the third dimension - floe thickness and thus volume - scientists are missing some key insights on the implications of this big swing in ice extent. Europe and US line up to measure Antarctic sea-ice 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska this month, which should be brimming with floes, its limits likely won’t be tested. Arctic in hot water: Sea ice minimal in Chukchi, Bering seas 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Shoveled pathways to various research stations are frequently rerouted to circumvent weak spots in the floe. Voyagers to the ‘epicenter of global warming’ struggle with bears, storms and thin ice 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z I noticed a black flake as large as my fingernail within the icy floe, removed a mitten and picked it up, rubbing the flake between my fingers. How to erase a ship—Arctic researchers work to eliminate their vessel’s fingerprints 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z As soon as we reached the floe on October 4, Dahlke and his colleagues worked hard to build the perfect site for such a balloon. Frozen Researchers Will Greatly Improve Arctic Weather Prediction 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Over the next few days, we snaked between the floes in order to travel through open water whenever possible. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Soon after departure, the project’s coordinators will face a crucial decision: To which floe should they link their fates? The biggest Arctic expedition in history is launching for the North Pole 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z A tremendous fissure opened in the floe to which the Polarstern was fixed, exposing the ocean waves. Voyagers to the ‘epicenter of global warming’ struggle with bears, storms and thin ice 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The Russian ship will transfer its equipment to the floe and turn around. Scientists Prepare to Drift With Arctic Ice for a Year to Study Climate Change 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In deep winter, when these vessels can't pierce the floes to reach the German ship, aeroplanes and long-range helicopters will deliver the supplies and relief teams. 'Biggest ever' Arctic expedition to get under way 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z And it was here that MOSAiC would begin its mission, as soon as project coordinators found a suitable floe. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Once locked into their chosen floe, the scientists will build a gigantic, floating research station around the ship. The biggest Arctic expedition in history is launching for the North Pole 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The square-mile floe “is not perfect,” said Rex, who spoke to The Washington Post in December over a feeble phone connection from the bridge of the Polarstern. Voyagers to the ‘epicenter of global warming’ struggle with bears, storms and thin ice 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z In the words of the heroine of A Mercy, they feel themselves to be ice floes, “cut away from the riverbank”, and they yearn to find something to belong to. An American great: Michiko Kakutani reflects on Toni Morrison's legacy 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It was as though I was standing on an ice floe in the Arctic somewhere, not on solid earth. How Coyote Peterson got millions of subscribers on his YouTube channel 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z For the past several months, Petrovsky and others had scoured satellite images for potential ice floes. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z He says he ended up on an ice floe no bigger than a Volkswagen Beetle. Alaska man jumped between ice floes before helicopter rescue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Sunday took a call of the men on the floe. Helicopter lifts 3 men off ice floe drifting off Nome 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z A sheet of ice holding fishermen on Lake Erie broke loose in windy weather Saturday, leaving nearly four dozen stranded on the floe for three hours more than a mile offshore. 30 passengers on flight from Istanbul hurt in turbulence before landing in New York 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Their escape across the frozen floes on foot and in lifeboats is an astonishing story of fortitude and survival. Shackleton ship search called off 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z But the only way to assess a floe’s true character is to see it firsthand. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Rode says the ice started cracking under them, and the floes became farther apart. Alaska man jumped between ice floes before helicopter rescue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Unlike Shackleton, however, the Weddell Sea Expedition team has been assisted by satellite ice charts, which make picking a way through the floes a lot easier. Search for Shackleton's lost ship begins 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Saturday that a large number of people were stuck on a floe broken off from the ice pack connected to Catawba Island. 30 passengers on flight from Istanbul hurt in turbulence before landing in New York 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z The expedition never got to begin its traverse because the Endurance was captured by the Weddell's thick floes in early 2015. Shackleton ship search called off 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z So on the morning of October 1 we flew the helicopter north of the Akademik Fedorov to a region where we could drill into five different floes to measure their thickness. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The indigenous people here, the Iñupiat, have learned to live on the edge of the tundra and the seas, with the whales, the birds and the ice floes. When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The Agulhas will have to periodically shift its hull to maintain open holes in the floes, through which to launch and recover the robots. Search for Shackleton's lost ship begins 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Some ships had official artists, and surviving sketchbooks speak of their achievements on course, or of being locked in floes, adrift, becalmed or waiting for whales to surface. Explorers at sea: centuries of science afloat 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z This is a measurement that involves sensing the difference in height between the top of the floating floes and the surface of the ocean. Space laser makes height maps of Earth 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Scientists made landfall—hiking across the floe one day and taking snowmobiles the next—and found that ice in the region was four to five meters thick. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z When we think about losing biodiversity, we tend to think of the last northern white rhinos protected by armed guards, of polar bears on dwindling ice floes. The Insect Apocalypse Is Here 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Scientists need thickness measurements to properly access the status of floes. Space laser to target Earth's ice 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z There are similarities of patterns: a field of moss looks like a mountain range, ice floes drift like clouds, glacier ice behaves like rock, only speeded up. Naked geology, dazzling light… my journey into the Arctic 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Players tilt a tablet device back and forth to steer the floe, avoiding icebergs and icy walls on either side. Can science-based video games help kids with autism? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Together they had assessed 16 floes, but only the Polarstern’s find, with its thick, white upper region—now dubbed the “Fortress”—could stabilize the German icebreaker. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Glassley eloquently evokes a place where land feathers into Arctic sea, ice floes glide by on mirror-smooth tongues of clear, frigid water and silence reigns. Taking Greenland’s geology to another dimension 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The folks at Quebec’s Canot a Glacé answer in the affirmative and offer hourlong excursions on the St. Lawrence River, maneuvering around and over the floes. Ice Canoeing—and Other Unusual Winter Sports Anyone Can Try 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z At the last minute, they dive simultaneously, creating a wave that swamps the floe, washing the crabeater seal—a potential meal—into the drink. What Dramatic Orca Hunt Video Tells Us About Dolphin Intelligence 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Pacing sled dogs, bundled explorers, and meandering ice floes could be scenes from any early Arctic expedition. National Geographic's First Filmed Expedition Was a Disaster 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z With the floe selected, the mission could finally begin in earnest. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The radiometer would be an advance on ageing American and Japanese satellites that are presently used to measure the extent of marine floes. Europe plans Sentinel satellite expansion 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z There are reminders everywhere: buildings buckling, floes of concrete and brick spilling across sidewalks, familiar streets bifurcated by strands of red and yellow emergency tape and patrolled by soldiers in uniform. After the Quake, Tremors of Anxiety Ripple Across Mexico City 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z So it’s rather intriguing that there’s one part of American history that many people are desperate to forget – to silence, tear down, steamroller and push out on an ice floe: Hillary Clinton. America’s vitriol towards Clinton reveals a nation mired in misogyny | Hadley Freeman 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z On a bone-chilling afternoon, teams of two divers dove among the floes while a third diver sat ready in case his help was required. In a changing Arctic, a lone Coast Guard icebreaker maneuvers through ice and geopolitics 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z The storm left a ship-shaped hole in the floe that was full of open water and fallen ice—including that beautiful turquoise piece that had once been pressed tightly against us. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z At first, lone floes bobbed on the waves like mangled lumps of Styrofoam. Arctic voyage finds global warming impact on ice, animals 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z We encountered the first floes around Point Barrow, the northernmost tip of Alaska. AP PHOTOS: Icebreaker leaves behind jagged Arctic icescape 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z A Columbia professor eagerly signs a petition to discourage Canadians from putting their elders on ice floes. Canada’s Comedy, the Voice of a Polite Nation, Rises in the Trump Era 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z On the wide screen above, killer whales in the wild work in tandem to also manufacture waves, dislodging their prey — a lone seal perched on an ice floe. Will new killer whale encounter resurrect SeaWorld? 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The maneuver was dangerous but unavoidable if we wanted to directly test the ice floe’s thickness. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z One morning, he wakes to an astonishing sight: a man on a sledge has been carried on the shifting floes to the side of his ship. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z At this time of year algae forms on the underside of floes, as spring begins in the far north. Shrinking Arctic sea ice threatens the majestic Beluga whale 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z In other words, if you had two acting credits in the Eisenhower era, start packing for the ice floe. Shakeup at the Oscars 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Scientists expect perhaps 300 cu km to be added to floes in the last days of the month. Arctic sea-ice struggles to build volume - BBC News 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Petrovsky was looking for ice that was a meter and a half thick—solid enough to stabilize a massive ship—but every floe thus far had been thin. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z They are trapped in the floes of the Far North, and their courage is failing. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z One computer, left alone for a minute, loops a video of penguins frolicking on an ice floe. The battle in Iraq that could turn the tide against Islamic State: The fight for Mosul is about to begin 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z This European Space Agency mission produces quick-turn-around maps of floe thickness. Arctic Ocean shipping routes 'to open for months' - BBC News 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z This European Space Agency satellite carries a radar altimeter designed specifically for the purpose of studying marine floes. Arctic sea-ice struggles to build volume - BBC News 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Although it is easy to picture the Arctic ice cap as vast and impenetrable, it is actually a loosely knit collage of thin and small floes that constantly jostle about. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z As regards the water, you could wash overboard and drown, fall off a floe and drown, get dragged into the ocean by a kink in the hurtling line of a harpoon and drown. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z A better correlation is with the fraction of the floes in May topped with melt ponds - and that metric suggests 2016 will not be a record year. Melt ponds suggest no Arctic sea-ice record this year - BBC News 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z In a mesmerizing visual essay, Mr. Staller’s earlier photos are juxtaposed with contemporary images of ice floes on the Hudson, construction at Hudson Yards and countless pedestrians on the High Line. From Decaying to Gleaming: Rapid Change for Hudson Yards’ Neighborhood 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Then four or five line up side by side and “rapidly swim in perfect unison toward the floe, creating a huge wave that washes off the unlucky seal.” Can squirrels count? And why would they want to? 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The first task was to find an ice floe so strong and thick that it would ultimately freeze around the Polarstern, entrapping the vessel within the ice for a full year. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z This latter figure is the best measure of the state of the marine floes. Arctic winter sees sluggish sea-ice growth - BBC News 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z A research ship will spend an entire year adrift with the ice floes of the Arctic to better understand the disappearance of the polar ice cap. Arctic research vessel to spend entire year studying sea ice decline 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Sounds came from the ice, ghoulish groans as floes shifted followed by artillerylike reports as the sheets collided, threatening to open a yawning divide beneath their feet at any moment. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z With a crunch and a shudder, the strengthened hull effortlessly splits the floe, and elbows the ice aside as we plough onward through sub-zero-temperature water towards a flat horizon. Halley VI: Dropping in on the British Antarctic Survey - BBC News 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Finding a suitable floe was far from easy. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z It means that this winter's maximum volume looks very similar at the moment to 2013, when the floes peaked at 24,800 cubic km. Arctic winter sees sluggish sea-ice growth - BBC News 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Rather, it proceeded much like the calving of Arctic ice masses under the pressure of global warming, leaving behind only a herd of modest ice floes. After the great unraveling: A harrowing glimpse of the world that awaits 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Pederson and Bombardier kept patrolling up and down the length of the lead, looking for a place where their floe might connect with the floe to the north. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z A rapid data feed is aimed at those sectors that need to be aware of the position of the most robust floes. Cryosat tracks Arctic sea ice freeze-up - BBC News 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Later it disappeared, and polar night would quickly settle over the floe. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z In addition, one rig spent two weeks avoiding unusually heavy summer ice floes. Shell’s big gamble: Oil wrangling at the far reaches of the Arctic frontier 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Contrast this with images of polar bears stalking prey among the ice floes or brown bears fighting along salmon streams. Five myths about pandas 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The expedition set forth at full throttle, skimming on to the other floe. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Small, sporadic floes grow larger, the great Atlantic swells flatten out, the bitter polar winds are stronger and the utter stillness begins. Shell will despoil the Arctic. But Barack Obama is the real villain here | John Vidal 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z On October 5 the crew drilled holes into the floe, dropped anchors through them and cinched the ropes—causing the Polarstern to shudder one last time as it became as stable as possible. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Ice floes from tidewater glaciers are available to harbor seals in south-central and southeast Alaska. NOAA issues new guidelines for vessels in glacial fjords 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z There’s ice, but the tidal zone is too shallow for massive floes to aggressively scrape the mud. Artist plans suicide awareness sculptures for mudflats 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Pitzl gunned his Ski-Doo and made it to the main floe, the others grabbing his sled and pulling it ashore before he sank into the abyss. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The sounds in this video I shot near the North Pole in 2003 speak to the power in colliding floes. Scientists Praise Contributions of Two Dutch Explorers Who Perished on Arctic Ice 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z Europe's Cryosat spacecraft routinely monitors the thickness of floes in the far north. '3D Cryosat' tracks Arctic winter ice 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z As the group walked north, it saw another floe. With Eagles Sighted, a Proposal Takes Flight 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z By midcentury, if the Risky Business report is right, those ice floes will be gone. Climate Change’s Bottom Line 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Plaisted, overpowering his own fear, stepped off the safety of the hard floe onto the gelatinous ice and picked his way gingerly to the machine, his feet sinking with each step. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Barely 24 hours later, the Arctic wind pushed an ice floe 30 miles long and 10 miles wide right at the ship, and it was forced to retreat. The Wreck of the Kulluk 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Environmental groups have also produced dramatic fundraising videos of polar bears drowning in the slushy floes of the melting arctic, while activists in eerily lifelike polar-bear costumes make frequent appearances at protests. Should the Polar Bear Still Sell Coca-Cola? 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z “The floe is a hunting perch, a raft and a dinner plate.” With Eagles Sighted, a Proposal Takes Flight 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In January, the wind across it is cutting, and ice floes drift along the sides. Climate Change’s Bottom Line 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z It was like a spider’s web, the ridges and floes forming an intricate icescape that lured them farther in. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Historians speculated that the ships had become trapped in the vast ice floes of the Canadian Arctic. Ship identified in Franklin search 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z When twins were born among the Inuit, for example, the indigenous Arctic people sent one off on an ice floe because providing for two was too daunting, Resnik said. What makes mothers kill their own children? Winds had blown ice towards the Canadian Arctic archipelago, piling up the floes. Scientists debate sea-ice trends 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Why 19th-century scientists clung to this counterintuitive idea remains obscure; there was little hard evidence to support it, and numerous Arctic expeditions early in the century had ended in debacle among impenetrable ice floes. Book review: “In the Kingdom of Ice,” polar voyage of USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides Revving their engines, the din breaking the vast silence, they awaited word from Pederson until the floes crashed with an enormous boom. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The factors that control the floes in the south are different to those in the north, and already they diminish to very low extents by autumn as a matter of course anyway. Ponds 'predict Arctic sea-ice melt' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z For smaller waves, less than 3m in height, the bobbing induced in the floes quickly decayed. Ocean waves influence sea ice extent 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z However, by that point, with the ice so thick and more floes accumulating around and ahead of us, clear water might as well have been 20 nautical miles away. Why did Antarctic expedition ship get stranded in ice? 2014-01-21T20:26:44Z He was one of the most intrepid explorers of the 19th Century, leading five expeditions to the Arctic and surviving for 10 months after his ship was crushed between two ice floes. The forgotten explorer of the frozen north 2013-09-28T23:19:33Z Variations in temperature, movement of floes, wind, the age of the ice, the depth of the ice — all had to be constantly assessed. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The floes in the far north are the subject of intense study currently because of their rapid summer decline. Ponds 'predict Arctic sea-ice melt' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z But industry analysts and mariners say poor infrastructure, ice floes, narrow straits, shallow waters, and stormy winters remain as obstacles to safe and profitable shipping. Putin: Russia to reopen Soviet-era Arctic military base 2013-09-16T20:07:52Z Significant sized floes build up year after year, he said. Why did Antarctic expedition ship get stranded in ice? 2014-01-21T20:26:44Z It underlines, say scientists, the long-term decline of the floes. Cryosat observes winter ice decline 2013-09-11T10:41:44Z Wally Herbert eventually reached the pole in 1969, after being trapped on an ice floe for close to eight months. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Ice floes lock in the entire region six months a year, making navigation almost impossible. Dot Earth Blog: The Argument Against Expanded Oil Drilling in Arctic Seas 2013-06-05T20:15:42Z The ice floe that hosts the 16-crew station has broken into six pieces, according to news reports last week. Seven days: 24–30 May 2013 2013-05-29T17:20:20.167Z One key finding is that marine floes around the White Continent in the 1960s were probably just as extensive as they are today. Earliest satellite ice maps produced 2013-04-24T14:30:58Z Rusin has a history of knee injuries and you'll recall that Jay DeMerit has already been put on an ice floe with an Achilles tear. MLS week five: fan previews 2013-03-29T15:16:05Z The crew drifted until their floe split suddenly, forcing them to undertake a perilous journey in lifeboats. 'Still time' for Endurance search 2012-09-25T10:09:52Z There will still be ice bergs and occasional floes of ice in the Arctic, but they’ll be scattered, surrounded by far more water than ice. Arctic Sea Ice: What, Why, and What Next 2012-09-21T15:15:05.030Z The strait is the exit route from the Arctic Ocean, a current carrying the floes south into the Atlantic. The 'big melt' at the roof of the world 2012-09-21T12:19:11Z A poster showed Mr. Putin leading a group of penguins onto an ice floe, with a caption that read, “I don’t want to rule, I just want a beak!” Anti-Putin Protesters March in Moscow 2012-09-15T13:01:25Z No damage occurred, but the accident raised questions about Shell’s readiness to manage the challenging Arctic conditions, which include months of darkness, extreme winds and massive ice floes. Arctic Drilling by Shell Expected to Begin This Year 2012-08-18T00:04:36Z Using robot submarines, he has made detailed measurements of the depths of ice sheets, while aircraft have surveyed the heights of these floes. Arctic wilderness faces pollution threats as oil and gas giants target its riches 2012-07-21T22:15:08Z Suddenly a new cry arose: “Water on the floe close by!” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Sometimes their own "floe," as Dr. Kane would have called so large a piece, collided with others, but always came off victorious. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z What with floes and bergs—vast fields of drift-ice—the way north in the spring is most perilous. Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z The window for drilling, which is controlled by ice floes and agreements to protect wildlife, closes the third week of September in the Chukchi Sea and at the end of October in the Beaufort Sea. Arctic Drilling by Shell Expected to Begin This Year 2012-08-18T00:04:36Z Though trembling violently, with her masts swaying to and fro, the Hansa was spared, great fissures in the floe near by showing how close was her escape. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Tyson, the second officer, with the steward, cook, six sailors, and eight Esquimaux, passed a miserable night on the drifting floe. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z It was separated from their floe by an open canal, perhaps five hundred yards wide, and floated along about even with them, sometimes swinging nearer, sometimes receding. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z Past the mouth of the strait flows a stream often over 100 m. wide, of berg and floe ice, carried by the Arctic current. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z They clambered over the hummocky floe, bringing loads of coal from the ship, and with their sleds brought fresh-water ice for the melting apparatus. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Three-fourths of this seemingly stable floe had disappeared, broken into huge, shapeless masses. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The floes were constantly uplifted by other ice underneath, but the little Tegethoff proved herself staunch and true. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z That floe is nearer than it has been before, Tug. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z In the neighborhood of Provincetown a fleet of fishing vessels that was unable to reach the harbor became immovably imbedded in the floe, thus realizing at our very doors all the perils of Arctic navigation. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The hawsers were attached to the floe, and the men stood waiting for the result of the combat on which their lives depended. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z But by God's protection, in a providential manner, after being reduced to a diameter of one hundred and fifty feet their floe held together. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z His weight, when he arrived on the floe, broke the ice, and both fell in together. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z There was; but so rapidly had the floes drifted apart that Tug held the very end of the taut line in his outstretched hand, and had not a bit to spare. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z Place him in the Great Sahara, plant him on an Arctic floe, Or a desert island, fifteen thousand miles from Westward Ho! Mr. Punch's Golf Stories 2012-01-28T03:00:25.907Z But the donkey almost at once sunk, and he jumped back upon the floe and launched one of the boats. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z At first seal were killed in open water-spaces around the edges of the floe. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The pack in the offing consisted of floes from five to six feet thick, with occasionally older and heavier floes, ten to twelve feet in thickness, but always much decayed and honeycombed. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z But both clothes-line and drag-ropes together proved too short to reach quite across, and the floes seemed to have stopped their approach to each other, so that waiting would be useless, if not dangerous. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z As the successive ice runs came down they were driven under the floes until at length the masses grounded on the shallows at the mouths below Niagara-on-the-Lake. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z Huge bergs were in sight which had in the storm and darkness charged upon the floe, and caused the breaking up of the preceding night. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z This hut was the very centre of activity on the floe. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Soon the ship was moored to the floe, and the officers and men were out to secure their game. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z It was dark when we headed back across the lava floes. Lava Loops and Stone Stripes 2012-01-10T20:15:00.237Z The river being now blocked up, the waters gradually rose fully twenty feet higher than usual bringing the ice floes with them. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z They sprung to the ice-foot, about ten feet above the floe. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Whiskey placed on the floe froze hard in a few minutes. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The dogs lived on the open floe all the winter. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Still, there is something to be said for standing 3 feet from an active lava floe without expert supervision. Lava Loops and Stone Stripes 2012-01-10T20:15:00.237Z Then when the floes close in about them they will drift with the ice over the pole—or, at least, that’s what they hope to do.” The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass The Midnight Call for Assistance 2012-01-02T03:00:17.697Z As they approached the shore edge of the floe they found it broken up, and its fragments surging against the base of the ice-foot to which they desired to climb. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Under these awful pressures the huge floes, as they met, crumbling at the edges, threw up vast masses of broken ice which in long pressure-ridges acted as buffers. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Her sharp iron prow had quite demolished the neck of ice, and it only remained to squeeze herself between the floes into clear water beyond. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z We stumbled our way back over the pahoehoe floes. Lava Loops and Stone Stripes 2012-01-10T20:15:00.237Z By diligent labor in removing every thing from her deck to a small floe, she was so lightened, that at four o'clock the next morning she floated, and soon every thing was properly replaced. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z At one time an alarm was brought to Dr. Kane that a wolf was prowling among the meat barrels on the floe. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Throughout the first night the cracking and breaking of the floes sounded like the firing of heavy artillery and the explosion of high-powered shells. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Captain Young, on the way up to Ivigtut, a little Danish settlement on the west coast of Greenland, brought his vessel alongside a large floe on which five seals were observed, apparently asleep. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z And gigantic rocks are precipitated into the air—rocks so large that, as they fall upon the ice miles distant from the burning crater, they smash the heaviest floes, and sink through into the sea. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z It began to give way on the 5th of June, and in the space of twenty minutes the whole mass, as far as the eye could reach became one vast field of moving floes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z The red boat—"Red Eric"—joined the party on the floe a few days after the start, increasing their burden, but assuring them of increased comfort and safety when they reached the open water. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Egerton found the ice-foot in good shape for some distance, but now and then was driven to the main floe of Robeson Channel. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z It was not, however, at first very formidable, consisting only of thin, loose floes, that offered little resistance to the sharp prow of the Pandora. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Ere they were a mile from the floes they found this out, and the danger from the floating masses of ice was very real indeed. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z The open sea continued but a short time, when they again became entangled among bergs, floes, and hummocks, and encountered the most fearful perils. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z The open sea was far to the west, but along the margin of the floe were leads, and fortunately there was one beginning where they had halted. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Next day the floe, caught between two giant bergs, burst with a mighty roar, splitting completely in two, the crack running through the floor of the igloo. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z In the path of the vessel great flat pieces, or floes, presented themselves, and grew closer and thicker together, with but very narrow channels of water between them. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z The sea between the bergs and floes was everywhere calm; they had passed beyond the region of fogs, and, it would almost seem, beyond the storm regions as well, for the air was windless. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z They also encountered immense floes, with only narrow channels between, and at times their situation was exceedingly perilous. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z With a frantic yell the men urged the boats to the floe, seized the seal, and bore him to a safer place. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Now and then the keen scent of a dog or his own hunter's instinct discovered a seal igloo on the floe. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Occasionally a little “young ice,” which had formed between the split-up floes of ancient date, would afford them better travelling, but this luxury was not often found. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z McBain and party landed on the floe and walked towards the derelict. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Sometimes they anchored their vessels to icebergs, and sometimes to floes or masses of hummock. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z While thus speeding along, far out on the floe, he spied a black speck in-shore away to the south. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Meantime Br�nlund and Tobias, the two Eskimo dog drivers, quickly threw off the sledge loads on the floe and drove on with such speed that the hunters were soon within shot. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Toms, the old gunner, who was out with Captain Young in the Fox, was on the bridge conducting the vessel’s course, and instead of going around they drove straight at the floe. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z The great berg to which they had been anchored had parted company with the floe, and was evidently bent on going to sea along with the Arrandoon. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Looking down from this height, I could behold all the sea of ice spread out like a map before me, with sealers at work on the southern floes. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z The Esquimo, usually at home on the floe, whether by night or by day, were quite bewildered. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z At first this floe rotation was completed in twelve days, but later, with reduced size, stronger currents, and high winds, the floe-berg made a full rotation in four days. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The boats made good progress until stopped by the ice at noon on the 24th, when they were hauled upon a small floe, the latitude by observation being 81° 12′ 51″. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z The ship was pumped out, and next day, the weather becoming once more fine, she was towed towards the island of Jan Mayen, and made fast to a floe. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z A great bear—always a sign seals are about—stood sniffing on the edge of a floe. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z A fire was built that night on the floe, and the joyous feast went on until hunger was appeased; they had driven away its gnawings, and, happily, it returned no more. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Barely a square mile of the floe remained intact, with the coal house perilously near the edge instead of in the centre. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z They lay down, and applying their ears to the floor, could hear a rustling like the singing of ice when closely jammed, and as if water were running under the floe. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z At these cries there was an undulating movement in the earth, the hard stone and the ice floes. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z They were walking over a floe of thick bay ice as the mate told his story. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z The winter dragged along but not the wind, which roared in tempests, and rushed over the floe in currents traveling fifty-three miles an hour. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Suddenly the captain cried out, "Water is making on the next floe!" True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The captain, considering that the moment had arrived when they should leave the floe and try to reach the coast, called a council. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Both Fernandes and Real may have sailed up the east coast of Greenland until they were stopped by floe ice. The White Elephant of Rucheni 2011-11-22T18:45:02.247Z It was strange work, and it seemed at first impossible that twenty men with a spar could move a floe. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z On she went, steaming, drifting, banging against broken floes, through the waters over which we have voyaged with Kane and Hayes, until they came into the familiar regions of Hayes's winter-quarters. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Meanwhile their coal house with the floe was drifting south slowly, with the coast of Greenland in plain sight, distant from five to fifteen miles. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z They made seven miles, and then hauled up on a small floe. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z It began with splashing about in the cold pools of the Frogner river, and ended in having to swim for dear life amid the ice floes of the frozen ocean. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z The captain had to give his orders through the speaking-trumpet, and even then his voice was often drowned by the grinding, shrieking din of the heaving floes. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z The white men at first took them for the floe party, and raised three rousing cheers of welcome. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z All were instantly astir, and soon a walrus was located, a black spot on the clear white of an adjoining floe. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Cheerless and barren of all hope the first year lay before us, and we were not any longer discoverers, but doomed to remain as helpless voyagers on a floe of drifting ice.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z The swell is so heavy that the floe ducks up and down like a boat in the trough of the sea. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z Chisholm is on an adjoining floe, but the warning he shouts comes all too late; for next moment his poor friend lies helpless and bleeding in the talons of the terrible ice-king. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z Surely there is no peace for them by night or day, on the floe or afloat in their boat. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Before any one could stir, even had he known where to go, their floe burst with a fearful sound midway between the coal house and the wood-pile. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Proceeding northward themselves, they became entangled in a floe of ice, where they had to remain thirteen days, after which the field broke up, and they got into an open sea. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Their floe is now at the extreme edge of the ice, close to the open sea. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z Not always: there were times when the floes around the ship began to move slowly up and down, telling of a swell beneath them; then the rending, shrieking, and groaning noises were indescribable. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z February was a dreadful month on board the floe. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z In the early days, before the pack had become an unbroken ice-mass, a hunter espied on an adjacent floe a large she bear with her cub. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z On the 28th the party arrived at a floe covered with high and rugged hummocks in successive tiers, and the boats had to be dragged up and down places which were almost perpendicular. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z A huge crag of ice rises up like some white-clad threatening monster, and the surf dashes furiously over the floe. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z The floes were of great size, heavy, mischievous-looking pieces, covered with snow on the top, but with a deal of hard green stuff under water. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z Their floe began to herald its fast approaching dissolution. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z From the snow-covered floes were entirely absent the tiny traces of the snowy ptarmigan, the weaving, wandering trails of the arctic fox, and the sprawling foot-marks of the polar bear. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z For three hours we remained unmolested, though the ice outside of the floe was moving in various directions, some pieces almost whirling round, and of course, in the effort, disturbing others. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z He becomes aware of a new and strange motion in the floe beneath him. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z The ice in the creeks let go, and was borne down by the torrents in grinding, jamming floes. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z It is not surprising that after their rough handling on the floe they should seek a larger and safer one. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Affairs looked dark the next spring, for three of the men had died, while the main floe of the straits was holding fast later than usual. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z This is one of the many instances in which our small vessel labours under very great disadvantages in ice navigation; we have neither sufficient manual power, steam power, nor impetus to force the floes asunder. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z If she runs into a floe at full speed, she scarcely utters a sound, only quivers a little, perhaps.” Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z This evening we again made fast, the floes having closed together, cutting off advance and retreat. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z We will return to those on the floe. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z When the storm began the sea seemed covered by floes of similar size and of equally unbreakable ice. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The Terror was almost capsized by a small submerged berg which had been released by the breaking up of the floe. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Ten or a dozen of the bulky animals waddled with upraised heads to the extreme edge of the floe, whereupon Nansen took aim at the largest, and fired. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z Fortunately for us, our poor little 'Fox' is well within the margin of a stout old floe: we are therefore undisturbed spectators of ice-conflicts, which would be irresistible to anything of human construction. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z Some of the other men started in the other boat at the same time, and the three men were soon united to the rest of the floe party. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Surrounding them were hundreds of icebergs and huge floes of all sizes and shapes inextricably entangled and disrupted. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z “It was a scraping, blustering, crackling, sawing, grating, and jarring sound, as if some unhappy ghost was wandering under our floe.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z The floe you are standing on gets smaller and smaller; water pours over it; there can be no escape except by scrambling over the ice-blocks to get to the other side of the pack. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z At length I reached a place where the jagged edges of the floes met, so crossed and got safely on board. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z One of the last things Tyson drew out of the way of the vessel as its heel was grinding against the parting floe were some musk-ox skins. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Yesterday they could walk miles on their own floe, now they were confined to a floe-fragment. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The boat King William lay on the edge of the floe, and might have floated away at any moment. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Flat, drifting floes of ice, rocked up and down in the blue-green sea, alike in sunshine and in fog, in storm and calm. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z The floes lay within 30 yards of us upon each side. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z But the floe was not in a favoring mood. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Three days of unremitting labor brought them to a floe that seemed solid, which they occupied in face of bad weather. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The floe broke in the immediate vicinity of the house, and the boats had to be dragged near it. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z They are but a few hundred metres distant from the open sea, and soon will have to take to the boats, or be washed off the floe. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z This is one of the many instances in which our small vessel labors under very great disadvantages in ice-navigation—we have neither sufficient manual power, steam power, nor impetus to force the floes asunder. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z The boat itself was borne into the middle of the floe. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Regard for the safety of the living did not permit of carrying him farther, and he was buried on the floe, in a deep snow-drift near the camp. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z In November, upon a neighbouring floe, separated from them by a small interval of freshly-frozen water, they saw the shapeless body of a large walrus lying motionless as a rock. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z But there is one outside, on the floe. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z On the separation of the floes, mass after mass forced itself up to the surface, until at length all the submerged ice had risen, except such as had been forced quite under their edges. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z So angrily at last did one come down upon them that they abandoned their floe and rowed away. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z February opened with ten days of fruitless hunting, when Hans fortunately saw a seal thrust his head up through young ice far from the floe. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Their floe, from its last diameter, about a mile, had dwindled to 150 feet. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z It was as if some invisible hand had steered the floe, he said afterwards to Nansen. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z Lancaster Sound, although not frozen over, was crammed full of floes and icebergs. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z Every night, when the toils of the day were over, the boats were drawn upon the floe, every thing taken out, and the only hot meal of the day was prepared. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z With his paddle braced against rough bits of the floe and by squirming his body, Hans finally reached the seal, fastened a line to it, and worked his way back in the kayak. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z This night was the most dreadful one of our adventurous voyage on the floe. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z When Nansen awoke, the floe was in safe shelter. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z Winter! black-browed and bearded with the snows, We thought thee vexed with April's wanton ways Brooding afar amid the Arctic floes, Or with new icebergs fringing dreary bays. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z They had been on the floe six months, and floated more than sixteen hundred miles. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Their floe began to crumble under pressure from other bergs, and Ebierbing's hut was carried off as the floe split. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z They ran over the floe, crying and laughing, and brandishing their knives. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z When the ice nipped she lifted herself up, as if raised by invisible hands, and pushed the floes down below her. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z Her green eyes shine through the frost-bound floes, and light the depths of the Northern seas.” The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z The floe had played them an Arctic trick; it had broken and set the whole party adrift on an ice-raft not more than one hundred and fifty yards square. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Again the floe split while breakfast was being cooked in the tent, the crack running through the tent; the cook escaped but the breakfast fell into the sea. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z A vessel had been beset for eleven days on the coast of Labrador in floes of ice mixed with icebergs, many of which had huge rocks, gravel, soil, and wood upon them. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Two nights ago, the captain, Mark Landow, was up much of the night, steering the ship by radar, avoiding the large drifting floes that dotted the sea surface. Scientist at Work Blog: Minds on the Seafloor, Eyes on the Ice Ahead 2011-09-23T18:53:12Z The bank, which rises gradually from the bottom, is the work of the Greenland glaciers and the floes of the Polar Sea. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z Soon after, their old floe, in an accommodating mood, thrust itself against the one they were on, the boats were passed over, and every thing was again together—boats and provisions. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Tyson took charge and at once decided to abandon the floe and the main supplies, knowing that the party would be safe if it could reach land and the Etah Eskimos. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Fortunately for us, our poor little Fox is well within the margin of a stout old floe; we are therefore undisturbed spectators of ice-conflicts which would be irresistible to anything of human construction. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z He was clad for the gusts of March like a sealer about to venture forth upon an Arctic floe. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z The edge of the floe off which the seal were used to fish in winter lay, perhaps, twenty miles beyond this barrier, and out of reach of the Tununirmiut. The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z Much the larger number of the dogs belonging to the expedition were on the floe, but no sledges. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z With the violent wind arose an awful groaning of the ice-pack, due to the tremendous pressures of the surging ocean beneath and of the crowding floes around. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Pushing ahead of the party, and clambering over some rugged ice-piles, I came to a long level floe, which I thought might probably have attracted the eyes of weary men in circumstances like our own. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z But it was clear that there was nothing random about the bears which stalked our ship from floe to floe. Witness: Arctic Ice Breaks Up as Polar Bears Stalk Ship 2011-09-07T16:45:00.270Z The incessant crash and jar of these cakes almost drowned the ripping sound of sheets of pack-ice driven bodily under the floe as cards are hastily pushed under a table-cloth. The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z The morning came, and the floe party were glad to see that the boat had three men in it. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The hurricane wind made movement most difficult, snow filled the air, their floe was quivering from awful pressures, while the howling gale and groaning ice-pack made a deafening tumult. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The children look on eagerly while the men get knives and lances ready, for perhaps news has just come that walruses 44 have been seen on the ice floes miles away up the coast. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z About eight miles from Cape Bauld, the northernmost point of Newfoundland, the vessel was struck by a sunken floe, which tore a hole in her side under the water-line, and she sank in two hours. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z And we played him thus, and we killed him thus Out on the edge of the floe. The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z We will leave the floe party awhile in His care, and follow the fortunes of the brave little vessel and her men. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Especially the fear of a fog-covered floe came to his mind, as vaporous forms like water-spirits rose here and there from fissures forming in the cracking floes. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z We've been very lucky with the weather but there's been times when we've been trying to find our way through moving ice floes in fog and we're a long, long way from help. British crew become first to row to magnetic north pole 2011-08-26T09:54:51Z When the 1914 Antarctic voyage got stuck for over a year in an ice floe, Shackleton's extraordinary positivity and decisiveness is said to have almost singlehandedly saved the lives of his entire crew. Best Leadership Books of All Time 2011-08-17T15:00:00Z And the loaded dog-teams go, And the wives can hear their men come back, Back from the edge of the floe! The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z Here lines were carried out on the floe and made fast to the hummocks, all the anchors having been lost. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The worn-out men worked frantically, dragging out bedding, food, clothing, medicines, guns, ammunition, sledges, boat furniture, and everything that could be of service for life on the floe. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z He was not sure whether the floe they were on had completely broken away from the great mass of ice in the cove and was already drifting out into the lake or not. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z They waited in dull patience for the wind to blow the floe against the coast. Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z Then they could see the ridged and furrowed surface of the floe tipped and laced with strange colors—red, copper, and bluish; but in the ordinary starlight everything turned to one frost-bitten gray. The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z The ship-wrecked whites had nearly worn out their fur suits, and their supply had been greatly reduced by the losses on the floe. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Stores, clothing, records, boats, food, and other articles were frantically cast upon the main floe to which the ship was secured by ice-anchors. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z In a few seconds he had “snaked” the sled to 242 the edge of the ice floe on which he stood. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z An’ the Second t’ None ran on with the floe, out t’ sea, with the wind an’ snow playin’ the devil for their own amusement, an’ the ice groanin’ its own complaint.... Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z The mind, heretofore busy in directing arm and foot, to force a way through miniature mountains of uplifted floes, was now, because of better ice, relieved of that strain, but it refused to seek diversion. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z It is the most cheerful home "on board" the floe, but surely it is cheerless enough. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The stranded men and supplies were not on a single floe, but scattered on several, which were separated by rapidly widening lanes of water. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z He turned a bright face on her as he struck out for the edge of the other ice floe. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z There was no longer any roar of surf; the first of the floe, now against the coast, had smothered the breakers. Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z We pushed upon the vacated floe without leaving the boat, taking the risk of ice puncture rather than walrus thumps. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Heavy ice-cakes, over-rode by the heavier floe, ground along its under surface, and when finding an opening of thin ice, rushed with a thundering sound to the upper surface. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z As has been said, their igloos were built near the centre of an enormous floe nearly a hundred feet in thickness and fifteen miles in circumference. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z If the ice was breaking up into floes, he might skate right off into the water, being unable to halt quickly enough, if on the steel runners. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z Near dawn, being then close inshore, off the Seven Dogs, which growled to leeward, she ran into the ice—the first of the spring floes: a field of pans, slowly drifting up the land. Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z Hitching the dogs, we let the whips fall, and with bounds they leaped around deep ice grooves in the great paleocrystic floes. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Whole fleets of icebergs, having broken away from the icy bands in which the floe had held them, hovered round to charge upon the helpless campers. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Tyson knew that separation from the icebergs and floes meant speedy death, and as soon as the sea calmed, April 1, he ordered the party to prepare for the abandonment of the floe. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The ice was “bucking” under his feet, and scarcely had they got away from the water when the crack extended clear across the cove and the floe drifted away. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z These floes become welded together and form the “ice-foot” frequently referred to in these pages, and photographs showing how this is done are seen on Figs. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z On the heavy floe upon which we rested were several large hummocks. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z ONE of the anchors of the "Polaris," in starting on the night of the separation, tore off a large piece of the floe with three men upon it. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Threatened by a closing pack they hauled up, with great difficulty, their boats on a large floe. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Again and again the shattering sounds announced the splitting of the ice floes. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z We had to fetch ice for our water from some stranded floes on the ice-foot, and this we did in a little sledge. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z From a distance to the windward we noted a low iceberg slowly gaining on our floe. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The boats were laden and launched, but when they were about half way to the shore the lead closed, and they returned to the floe and hauled up the boats. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z When the bow caught the edge of the ice the boat could in time be worked gradually up on the floe, but it was a heart-breaking, exhausting, prolonged labor. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Ice-saws were fixed ready to cut passages through the floes when they began to separate, and ice-anchors were run out so that the vessels could be warped along whenever an opening occurred. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z All day these floes, often crowded to their utmost capacity, would float past the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z We crossed several small floes and jumped the lines of water separating them, pulling sledge and canoe after us. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z So the boat was drawn upon the floe, and left with all its valuables near the water. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z As it was necessary to travel on the ice-floes they started across the ice, changing from one floe to another when forced to do so. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z As they were crossing the ice between King William's Land and the mainland, a great cracking of the floes startled them with the fear that the ice was breaking up. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z Anthony gravely insisted he had seen a polar bear on one tossing floe. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Toward the end of August we pushed out on the ensnaring pack to a small but solid floe. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z All went back to the middle of the floe. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Of course, occasional ice floes had been encountered and the little schooner had been compelled to make wide detours. The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition 2011-06-06T02:00:10.330Z |
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