Sentence examples for drifting icebergs from inspiring English sources

The U.S. offered the service of the Coast Guard to keep tab on drifting icebergs, & other nations agreed to share expenses pro rata.

Then, on February 9th, a little before 4 A.M., the Hunter located a cluster of ships on its radar: an unusual pattern of blips moving across the console at 14.7 knots, faster than drifting icebergs.

But those attracted to snowcapped landscapes and drifting icebergs, with an interest in the forces that create -- or imperil -- them, are the target of the eight-day Climate Pilgrimage offered by the Norway-based company Hurtigruten.

"The landscape itself, with its shifting and melting ice, its mirages, glaciers and drifting icebergs, is less a description of desolation than an ode to the beauty of impermanence," Ehrlich writes.

In addition, the scaled results of the simulations are compared with the existing analytical approximations of the ice resistance to drifting icebergs.

Here we found seabird abundances that were 2 to 6 times greater within about one-half km of free drifting icebergs than the area between about one-half and one km from the iceberg edge.

In 1988, Exxon contracted with the Institute of the Arctic and Antarctic, home to some of the world's leading experts on ice and icebergs, to model iceberg drifting patterns in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea.

Rhetoricians had identified the arctic north with the Union cause, and icebergs, drifting southward and eventually melting were seen as metaphors for the inevitable demise of slavery.

We must reassemble what is falling apart and drifting away like icebergs.

Worsley, in London while awaiting a new berth, joined the expedition as a result of a dream, in which he was navigating a ship around icebergs drifting down Burlington Street.

Free-drifting icebergs in the Weddell Sea are expected to affect the surrounding marine ecosystem.