pack-ice

• “He said that moving the tanker even with the help of the cutter through more than 300 miles of pack-ice was a "very profound obstacle.”

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• “Unique among Arctic land mammals, these giant bears spend most of their time near water hunting for fish and seal, traveling deep into pack-ice regions to find their prey.”

  Arctic

• “On this trip we reached the edge of the pack-ice belt three days after leaving the Barrier.”

  The South Pole~ Northward

• “The meeting with the imposing colossus had another significance that had a stronger claim on our interest -- the pack-ice could not be far off.”

  The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier

• “In 1914 British explorer Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition set out with the goal of crossing Antarctica via the South Pole, but his ship, the Endurance, was frozen in pack-ice and sank 11 months later.”

  South Pole

• “What we had to do was to get as quickly as possible through the belt of pack-ice that blocked the way to Ross Sea to the south of it, which is always open in summer.”

  The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier

• “This left not much more than 900 miles before we might expect to meet with the pack-ice.”

  The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier

• “In that part of the voyage which we now had before us -- the region between the Australian continent and the Antarctic belt of pack-ice -- we were prepared for all sorts of trials in the way of unfavourable weather conditions.”

  The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier

• “In the first place, the distance to the nearest inhabited country is very great -- over 2,000 geographical miles -- and in the second, there is a serious obstruction on this route in the shape of the belt of pack-ice, which, narrow and loose as it may be at times, will always necessitate the employment of timber-built vessels for the work of transport.”

  The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey

• “In the course of the winter and spring the pack-ice is forced up against the Barrier into pressure-ridges of as much as 40 feet in height.”

  The South Pole~ The End of the Winter

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