pack ice

pack ice
a large area of floating ice formed over a period of many years and consisting of pieces of ice driven together by wind, current, etc.
Also called ice pack.
[1840-50]

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also known as  ice pack  or  pack 

      any area of sea ice (ice formed by freezing of seawater) that is not landfast; it is mobile by virtue of not being attached to the shoreline or something else. Pack ice expands in the winter and retreats in the summer in both hemispheres to cover about 5 percent of the northern oceans and 8 percent of the southern oceans. See also sea ice.

Martin O. Jeffries
 

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