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  • A big floeberg resting peacefully ahead caught my eye, and half an hour later we had hauled up the boats and pitched camp for the night.

    South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

  • The ship had steamed but a short distance, when, owing to the rapidly drifting ice in the channel, she had to be made fast to a floeberg.

    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888

  • We are sheltered north of a huge paleocrystic floeberg; and the dogs are at rest, with their noses in their tails.

    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888

  • On July 6, the anniversary of our departure from New York a year before, the greater part of the day was spent in pumping water from the top of a heavy floeberg into the ship's boilers.

    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888

  • There is, on this October winter's dark-day evening in 1847, no arctic or antarctic continent, island, bay, inlet, range of mountains, ice shelf, volcano, or fucking floeberg which bears the name of Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

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