Land-fast ice, or simply fast ice, is sea ice that has frozen along coasts ("fastened" to them) or to the sea floor over shallow parts of the continental shelf, and extends out from land into sea. Unlike drift ice, it does not move with currents and wind.
Drift ice consists of ice that floats on the surface of the water, as distinguished from the fast ice, attached to coasts. When packed together in large masses, drift ice is called pack ice. Pack ice may be either freely floating or blocked by fast ice while drifting past.
Pancake ice is sea ice broken into small round chunks looking like pancakes.
The most important areas of pack ice are the polar ice packs formed from seawater in the Earth's polar regions: the Arctic ice pack of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic ice pack of the Southern Ocean. Polar packs significantly change their size during seasonal changes of the year. Because of vast amounts of water added to or removed from the oceans and atmosphere, the behavior of polar ice packs have a significant impact of the global changes in climate, see "Polar ice packs" for details.
An ice floe is a floating chunk of ice that is less than 10 kilometers (six miles) in its greatest dimension. Wider chunks of ice are called ice fields.
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ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE CREW POSITIONS
"MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS.
- SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON"
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Endurance -- Beginning-- Forward Going-- Starting-- Launching
We begin again... a launching into a new project with a new crew... creating something from nothing thinking about the key elements, investigating the old stories. It is an exciting time this time period of adventure and exploration. We shall attempt to capture that feeling and sentiment. We shall attempt to create a feeling of cold the vastness of the sea and the frozen land. We are in search of Sea Shanties, Cabin Plays, Heroic Journey's, Good Fearless Adventures, and Singers of Songs. " By Endurance we shall conquer" - quote from Shackletons Family moto.
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