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

• floe

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• Ice breakup forces scientists to flee polar research station
  MURMANSK, Russia, June 10 (UPI) -- Sixteen scientists were being evacuated Monday from a Russian research station threatened by breakup of the ice floe on which it is located, a spokesman said.
  June 10, 2013 - UPI