Sentence examples for drifting ice from inspiring English sources

The Endurance was immobilized, held hostage to the drifting ice floes.

Drilling crews will contend with dense fogs, drifting ice, months of darkness and gales.

Crabeater seal, (species Lobodon carcinophagus), southern seal of the family Phocidae found among drifting ice packs around the Antarctic continent.

He established on drifting ice near the North Pole a scientific station notable for its oceanographic researches (1937).

In shallow Arctic waters where drifting ice is a hazard for fixed platforms, artificial islands are constructed.

When the cyclone swept over the drifting ice floes, underside ridges churned up the water to bring sun-warmed seawater to the ice's bottom edge.

But the most worry had been caused by a 99-day wait on a drifting ice-floe which at one point seemed to threaten the success of the expedition.

In the wild, male polar bears tend to be loners, who wander long distances through sketchy weather and over shape-shifting ice, with drifting pack ice as home.

Nearby are glaciers, mountains, ice caves, and drifting pack ice.

Restriction by the drifting permanent ice pack, which was once heavily larded with thick multiyear ice, effectively prevented access by American scientists until the '60s.

From the excellent data we receive a few times each day from the Canadian Ice Service, it appears we will not have any further encounters with drifting sea ice during this trip.