Sentence examples for on a floe from inspiring English sources

"Karl, Karl, Karl," she trilled, and for a moment one was not in Paris at all but on a floe in the Arctic Ocean, on a fragment of ice snapped off the glacial shelf.

Then it broke away, leaving 19 people stranded on a floe.

A second ship, the Hansa, became separated and was crushed in the ice, and the crew drifted south on a floe around Cape Farewell, reaching the settlement of Frederiksdal in safety.

Should the ship founder, a possibility which Nansen thought very unlikely, the party would camp on a floe and allow itself to be carried towards safety.

After a day's travel in this manner they decided to rest on a floe, waterproof the kayaks and build up their own strength for the next stage of their journey.

On September 12, the explorers resigned themselves to wintering on the ice and camped on a large floe, letting the ice take them where it would, "which", writes Kjellström, "it had really been doing all along" (p. 47).

Aboard the ship, first mate Chester reported that he could see "provisions and stores" on a distant floe, however there were never any orders to retrieve the stores or search for the castaways.

Every year at about this time, a Russian cargo plane deposits many tonnes of equipment on an ice floe one degree off the north pole.

After locating a seal loafing on an ice floe, groups of whales rush the floe, their tails pumping in sync to generate a wave that washes the seal into the water.

The Big Two rescued him again when he found himself stranded on an ice floe on the Rhine.

When that proved impossible, they camped for months on an ice floe.