(1) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
(2) Small, sporadic floes grow larger, the great Atlantic swells flatten out, the bitter polar winds are stronger and the utter stillness begins.
(3) Left to the market, this infrastructure could melt away and leave UK language programmes stranded, like a polar bear on a lonely ice floe.
(4) The ship, Xue Long – or Snow Dragon – signalled that it might need to be rescued from ice floes off the coast of Antarctica, where 24 hours earlier its crew had helped free passengers from the Shokalskiy .
(5) You saw David Attenborough , hunkered down on an ice floe somewhere near Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic.
(6) "Only this time can we have Sam looking pathetic on an ice-floe while a whole school of whales attacks him?"
(7) Last March and April – typically the time of year when the ice floes are at their thickest – there was just 15,000 cubic km of ice.
(8) Some drilling had to be halted abruptly after it emerged that an ice floe 30-miles long and 12-miles wide appeared to be heading towards the drill ship.
(9) She will have to swim across ice-cold stretches of open water, walk on ice floes and climb snowy ridges.
(10) Originally a 1940s eco-concept by modernist architect Luis Barragán, the district was an exercise in plumbing clean architectural lines through the nature of lava floes that bubbled and rolled here as rock.
(11) Creating a habitat compatible with each creature's original home would have been impossible; for example, bamboo plantations for the pandas, eucalyptus groves for the koala bears, ice floes for the penguins and polar bears, tanks for the freshwater creatures at risk from flood conditions, plus the filtering and pump systems necessary to maintain hygiene standards.
(12) The average thickness of the ice floes measured by the team was 1.8m, a depth considered too thin to survive the next summer's ice melt season.
(13) On the short walk to Insurgentes it becomes clear that people have made with concrete what Barragán made of the lava floes.
(14) First it will be glassy, thin "shuga", "grease" or "pancake" ice, unable to bind the floes together.
(15) Duncan said that the idea of consolidating UK advertiser-funded broadcasters was like "penguins crowding together for safety on a rapidly melting ice floe".
(16) Antarctic ice floes extended further than ever recorded this southern winter, confounding the world’s most-trusted climate models.
(17) Meanwhile, the NSIDC said ice floes surrounding Antarctica reached a relatively high summer minimum on 20 February.
(18) At shear rates less than 1 sec-1, flow occurred by the relative movement of irregular, roughly ellipsoidal actin domains 40-140 microns long; the appearance was similar to moving ice floes.
(19) In the north, the ice-floes have melted considerably since we were here a few years ago to make what was basically the same film about polar bears and stuff: incontrovertible proof, if any more were needed, that global warming is having a devastating effect on the region's fauna.
(20) The floes are piled up and compressed in fantastic shapes and shades of grey and blue; they crack, rumble and groan as we nudge them aside or climb over them.
Iceberg
Definition:
(n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord said the case is "likely to be the tip of the iceberg", leading to other claims against banks over the Libor scandal.
(2) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
(3) The examples I have quoted are the tip of a very large and very nasty iceberg.
(4) It turns out the accounting scandal – which revealed the estimate of first-half profits Tesco gave the City back in August had been artificially inflated by £263m – was just the tip of the iceberg that the previous management team left for him to negotiate.
(5) The number of people in England and Wales entering insolvency fell in the first three months of 2012, but debt charities warned the figures represented "the tip of the iceberg" of the UK's debt problems.
(6) He said the figures could be “just the tip of the iceberg”, as some tenants could be losing their homes without going through the court process.
(7) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
(8) The police and the authorities are now aware that trafficked children are being forced to work in cannabis farms but this is really only the tip of the iceberg.
(9) Russian athletics’ doping crisis could be the tip of the iceberg for world sport Read more It is understood that senior figures within the IAAF council will push for Russia to be immediately provisionally suspended.
(10) Many of the tumours had the characteristics of an iceberg, with considerable extravesical extension making endoscopic management less suitable because of the possibility of massive haemorrhage or recurrence.
(11) The oppression of Europe's Romany has lasted thousands of years and the case of Maria is merely the tip of the iceberg.
(12) Instead he said the buildup of ice was caused by the aftermath of a collision between a huge iceberg known as B09B and the Mertz Glacier Tongue.
(13) Websites such as favors.org or sliversoftime.com, and new kinds of local currency – from Berkshares or brixtonpound.org – are the tip of a giant iceberg of an exchange-based economy that encompasses all the things that people do for each other without money changing hands in conventional ways.
(14) A skating star in the twilight of his storied career and another who could go on to be just as impressive combined to put in top performances at the Iceberg Skating Palace on Sunday night and win Russia their first gold medal, to the delight of the watching Vladimir Putin.
(15) Now we know, thanks to the findings handed by a whistleblower to the Sunday Times and ARD, the German broadcasting network, that Yegorova was just the tip of a very large iceberg .
(16) Dr Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organisation, sees obesity as the tip of the iceberg, pointing towards a catastrophe in which the world has to manage millions suffering from long-term chronic illness.
(17) We discuss the concept that circulating cytokines represent the tip of the iceberg.
(18) Paul Kenny, the GMB general secretary, said: "Current job losses already announced in the public sector of nearly 150,000 are just the top of the iceberg heading for our services and our economy when the comprehensive spending review finally hits home next month.
(19) He also shows off a spectacular electric blue iceberg.
(20) The banning of minarets may prove to be the tip of an upcoming iceberg.