ABOUT THE ICE FAMILY.
Whenever a ' polar expedition is in progress wc hear of ice floes, pack ice, sailing ice, and other things of which the reader in this temperate clime has only, a hasy idea, which makes him miss the interest of the news. An "ice field" is an area of frozen snow or water, so largo that the limits are invisible and unknown. On the oth'T hand, a "doe" is a mass of ice, perhaps very large, but whose boundaries are seen by the explorer. When such floes become broken, and the pieces are wedged together by the wind and the currents, they "form "pack ice," the terror of the Arctic voyager. When a ship gets caught in a mass of pack ice, there it remains' fast until contrary winds or currents break up the pack, and then we have "sailing ice."
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 43, 28 May 1907, Page 7
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144ABOUT THE ICE FAMILY. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 43, 28 May 1907, Page 7
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