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• n  a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea

• On his floe, meanwhile, in the gloom of Arctic winter, Leader Ivan Papanin glimpsed the searchlight beam from an icebreaker 40 miles away.
• Reversing Eliza, the men jumped from floe to floe, dragged the dogs by main force, assembled 53 animals.
• The most highly publicized hunk of ice in the world last week was a floe about the size of three tennis courts.

• ice floe

News & Articles

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• 20 rescued from ice floe
  A group of campers stranded in the Canadian arctic for almost two days after an ice floe broke off was rescued by helicopter on Wednesday.
  June 27, 2013 - MSN
• Tourists rescued after nearly 2 days stranded on floating ice floe
  A group of campers stranded on a drifting ice floe in the Canadian arctic for almost two days was rescued by helicopter on Wednesday.
  June 27, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Tourists escape from drifting ice floe in Canadian arctic
  A tourist group, including two Americans, that was stranded on a drifting ice floe in the Canadian arctic has made it back to solid ground, the tour operator said Wednesday.
  June 27, 2013 - NBC NEWS

Quotes

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• Tim Flannery in North Queensland Register
  The negotiators at the moment are a bit like penguins on an ice floe, scared to be the first one into the water for fear of the seal lurking below,Prof. Flannery said in a comment about the lack of leadership on climate change. "They...
• David McGuinty in Canada.com
  They're jumping from ice floe to ice floe, desperately seeking higher ground to try to get a smidgen of credibility on the environment,said McGuinty. "But it's not working, because all they can find, having cut $600 million of programs, is...
• Arnold Schwarzenegger in MarketWatch
  You will become a political penguin on a smaller and smaller ice floe drifting out to sea,Schwarzenegger said.