blue ice

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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clear, translucent ice that is compact and solid.

Quotations

1727

. . . a ship may with as much safety run against a rock as against . . . a hard blue ice.

1853

I have often seen the strength of the Erebus most severely tested between huge dense masses of blue ice, violently grinding past her sides. . . .

1956

Brownish or dark ice, it appeared, was dangerous. Blue ice was all right even if it was covered with water. . . .