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drift-ice

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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small ice masses drifting in the sea.

Quotations

1829

. . . even the heaviest drift ice rushing before a flood would not be able to sweep them away.

1902

. . . we had a remarkably striking view of drift-ice streaming west-south-west into the strait. . . . The Labrador current was a vivid reality to us as we watched the truly majestic procession of these dazzling migrants from a polar sea.

1965

. . . a hunter was carried out to the Gulf of Georgia and drowned by being caught in drift ice in a small punt.