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    The Arctic ice pack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity. The Arctic ice pack undergoes a regular seasonal cycle in which ice melts...
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    ice floes. The two major ice packs are the Arctic ice pack and the Antarctic ice pack. The most important areas of pack ice are the polar ice packs formed...
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    sea ice is enclosed within the polar ice packs in the Earth's polar regions: the Arctic ice pack of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic ice pack of the...
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  • Look up ice pack in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polar ice pack may refer to: Arctic ice pack Antarctic sea ice Drift ice This disambiguation page...
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    seasonal variation in how much pack ice of the Arctic ice pack covers the Arctic Ocean. Much of the Arctic ice pack is also covered in snow for about 10 months...
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  • ice packs may refer to: Sea ice Arctic ice pack Antarctic sea ice This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Polar ice packs....
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  • animal used by humans as means of transporting materials Arctic ice pack Pack (aircraft), P.A.C.K (Pneumatic Air Cycle Kit), a kit containing an air cycle...
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    in the Arctic Ocean open waters in a row boat and pioneered ocean rowing routes from Tromsø to Longyearbyen, from Longyearbyen to Arctic Ice Pack (79º55'500...
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    winter. Some parts of the Arctic are covered by ice (sea ice, glacial ice, or snow) year-round, and nearly all parts of the Arctic experience long periods...
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  • An ice floe (/floʊ/) is a large pack of floating ice often defined as a flat piece at least 20 m across at its widest point, and up to more than 10 km...
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    Vladimir Wiese (category Explorers of the Arctic)
    of the Arctic ice pack. His name is associated with the Scientific Prediction of Ice Conditions theory. Wiese was a member of the Soviet Arctic Institute...
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  • reintroduced, explaining his absence by accidentally freezing in the Arctic ice pack. Frederik Pohl's science fiction work The Age of the Pussyfoot (1966–1969)...
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    Indian subcontinent, the unstable Eurasian-Eastasian boundary, the Arctic ice pack and the islands in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. The majority of the...
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    sheet of glacial ice that drifted throughout the central Arctic Ocean in a clockwise direction. First inhabited in 1952 as an arctic weather report station...
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    afloat for 10 years. A small number of floats are also trapped in the Arctic ice pack where there is movement over the North Pole and into the Atlantic Ocean...
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    Observing System Antarctic ice pack Arctic ice pack University of Colorado at Boulder "ELOKA Home - eloka-arctic.org". Eloka-arctic.org. Archived from the...
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    circumnavigation. There are practical difficulties (namely, the Arctic ice pack and the Antarctic ice sheet) in such a voyage, although it was successfully undertaken...
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    North Pole (category Geography of the Arctic)
    its "palaces ablaze with immaterial matter." Arctic cooperation and politics Arctic Council Arctic ice pack Antarctica Biome Celestial pole Ecliptic pole...
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    Polynya (category Arctic Ocean)
    surrounded by sea ice. It is now used as a geographical term for an area of unfrozen seawater within otherwise contiguous pack ice or fast ice. It is a loanword...
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  • reaches the Arctic ice-pack, and dives under it. She surfaces in a break in the ice and succeeds in making tenuous radio contact with Ice Station Zebra...
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    Columbia is exposed to the ice drift of the Arctic sea ice. The approximately 2 m (6 ft 7 in) thick pack ice of the Arctic Ocean moves several hundred...
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    Northwest Passage (category Arctic Ocean)
    1903–1906. Until 2009, the Arctic pack ice prevented regular marine shipping throughout most of the year. Arctic sea ice decline, linked primarily to...
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    Islands to the Bering Strait was planned to reach the pack ice during the most ice-free Arctic season. The ships were provisioned for a three-year voyage...
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    south-western France and in Spain, by boat around the southern edge of the Arctic ice pack roughly 20,000 years ago. Since the later 2000s and during the 2010s...
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    Narwhal (redirect from Arctic unicorn)
    feed on demersal prey, mostly flatfish, under dense pack ice. During the summer, they eat mostly Arctic cod and Greenland halibut, with other fish such as...
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  • shoreline protection, time of year and pressure from the pack ice. In Arctic seas the fast ice extends down to depths of 20 m (65.6 ft), while in the Subarctic...
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    polar ice cap in the Arctic Ocean. She continuously recorded ocean currents and water salinity and temperature, and surfaced 19 times through the ice cap...
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    Antarctic sea ice is younger, thinner, warmer, saltier, and more mobile than Arctic sea ice. Another difference between the two ice packs, is that while...
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    Ringed seal (category Pinnipeds of the Arctic Ocean)
    seals reside in arctic waters and are commonly associated with ice floes and pack ice. The ringed seal maintains a breathing hole in the ice thus allowing...
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  • Facchino. The 6-man team rowed from Longyearbyen, Svalbard to the Arctic ice pack (79'55'500 N) and then onto Jan Mayen. The Polar Row became the most...
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