Sea ice that is not attached to land but rather moves on the sea surface in response to wind and ocean currents.
1Masses of drift ice and slush, but for the most part surprisingly clear.
2The gale would drive the drift ice up the Gulf and pack the floes.
3Above us a roof of mist, beneath our feet the rugged packed drift ice.
4On the other hand, Agassiz seems to me mad about glaciers, and apparently never thinks of drift ice.
5That patch of drift ice is not in the least likely to extend as far north as our track.
6Here they saw an enormous herd of walruses, lying piled up over each other on the loose drift ice.
7Nansen recorded another dream: People ask me what it was like among the drift ice but I forgot to take accurate observations.
8Not only are storms of frequent occurrence, but in the months of winter and spring large quantities of drift ice are commonly encountered.
9Soon he was out upon a piece of drift ice, shaking himself, and began leaping from one lump of floating ice to another.
10That an open sea, with a fresh breeze, was as destructive for them, indeed more destructive, than a sea covered with drift ice:
11The event was meant to take place in the sea but organizers decided to use water basins instead due to the presence of drift ice.
12He met a quantity of drift ice about the northern part of the island and called it Ice-land, the name it has borne ever since.
13This was however impracticable, the channel being blocked up by drift ice, and we had no prospect of release except by a change of wind.
14Johnny's eyes once more swept the broad expanse of drifting ice.
15Preston and his three men worked the craft out slowly into the drifting ice.
16They were now sitting by the bank, watching some drifting ice upon the river.
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