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Emergency services said a 50-meter ice floe broke off near the village of Starodubskoye in the Sea of Okhotsk between Russia and Japan, stranding more than 80 fisherman a kilometer offshore.
—Josh Pennington, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
Authorities have rescued dozens of ice anglers from normally solid northern Minnesota lakes after ice floes broke off and carried them along.
—Steve Karnowski, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2024
Twenty people stranded on an ice floe on Lake Erie in Ohio are safe, the Coast Guard said Monday.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2024
More than 100 anglers were rescued Friday evening after they became stranded on an ice floe that detached from the main shoreline of Upper Red Lake.
—Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 1 Jan. 2024
In late December, more than 100 people had to be rescued from an ice floe that broke free from a fishing area on a northern Minnesota lake.
—Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
Twenty people were stranded on an ice floe on Lake Erie in chilly temperatures a half-mile from Ohio on Monday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
—Alex Sundby, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2024
On Friday night, emergency crews using boats and airboats rescued 122 anglers from an ice floe on the southeast side of Upper Red Lake in Beltrami County after the ice detached from the main shoreline.
—Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2024
More than 100 people were evacuated from an ice floe that broke away from the shoreline and began drifting into a lake in northern Minnesota on Friday night, the latest in a series of incidents on thinner-than-usual ice during a historically warm December for the state.
—Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined above
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“Ice floe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20floe. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.
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ice floe
noun
: a flat free mass of floating sea ice
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