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1open pack ice — open ice …
2open ice — ice covering five tenths to eight tenths of the water surface. Also called broken ice, loose ice, loose pack ice, open pack ice, slack ice …
3Ice pier — Historically, two supply ships, a freighter and a tanker, arrive at the ice pier each summer, after an icebreaker opens a ship channel through pack ice. The ice pier’s key function is to provide a platform for freight trucks to come alongside a… …
4Open Polar Sea — Silas Bent s 1872 map of the supposed Open Polar Sea. The Open Polar Sea was a hypothesized ice free ocean surrounding the North Pole. This unproven (and eventually, demonstrated false) theory was once so widely believed that many exploring… …
5ice — iceless, adj. icelike, adj. /uys/, n., v., iced, icing, adj. n. 1. the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water. 2. the frozen surface of a body of water. 3. any substance resembling frozen water: camphor ice …
6Ice — This article is about water ice. For the broader concept of ices as used in the planetary sciences, see volatiles. For other uses, see Ice (disambiguation) …
7broken ice — ice covering five tenths to eight tenths of the water surface. Also called loose ice, loose pack ice, open ice, open pack ice, slack ice …
8loose ice — ice covering five tenths to eight tenths of the water surface. Also called broken ice, loose pack ice, open ice, open pack ice, slack ice …
9slack ice — ice covering five tenths to eight tenths of the water surface. Also called broken ice, loose ice, loose pack ice, open ice, open pack ice …
10sea ice — Ice formed from frozen seawater in polar regions. Most sea ice occurs as pack ice, which drifts across the ocean surface; other types of sea ice include fast ice, which is attached to coasts and sometimes the seafloor or between grounded icebergs …
