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The phrase "an ice floe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a large, flat piece of floating ice, typically found in polar regions or cold waters.
Example: "The polar bear was seen resting on an ice floe, searching for seals in the icy waters below."
Alternatives: "a floating ice mass" or "an ice sheet".
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When it is turned on, it glows softly, like an ice floe illuminated from within.
(Gilbert: "It's stupid how beautiful she is. It's like getting clubbed on an ice floe").
When that proved impossible, they camped for months on an ice floe.
He himself had witnessed his mother shove his grandmother onto an ice floe.
The Big Two rescued him again when he found himself stranded on an ice floe on the Rhine.
Angular shards of concrete lie marooned beneath the bridge like fragments of an ice floe cast adrift.
I felt as if I were on an ice floe and didn't know where to jump off.
Instead the rescued passengers had to be put down on an ice floe next to the Aurora, Topham said.
However, early on in the voyage the party's ship, the Endurance, became trapped in an ice floe.
In the middle of the inlet, roughly two dozen harbor seals were splayed out on an ice floe.
It's a disastrous voyage that ends -- like the novel -- with the boat frozen solid in an ice floe.
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