DCHP-3

land-floe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

sea ice that is anchored to the shore and extends seaward in a great shelf.

See: shore-ice(def. 1)

Quotations

1850
The land-floe was still fast, reaching twenty-five or thirty miles off shore, and the pack had drifted off some ten or fifteen miles.
1857
There is generally along the land a body of compact ice fixed to the shore, occasionally extending many miles to seaward; this is termed the land floe, the edge of which--unless compelled by adverse fortune--is never quitted by the experienced Arctic navigator.
1939
By May literally hundreds of thousands [of eider ducks] have arrived to feed in the sea and rest idly on the edge of land-floe and ice-pan.