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land-floe 
n. sea ice that is anchored to the shore and extends seaward in a great shelf.
See also: shore-ice (def. 1)
- 1850 (1852) The land-floe was still fast, reaching twenty-five or thirty miles off shore, and the pack had drifted off some ten or fifteen miles.
- 1857 There is generally along the land a body of compact ice fixed to the shore, occasionally extending many miles to seaward; this is termed the land floe, the edge of which--unless compelled by adverse fortune--is never quitted by the experienced Arctic navigator.
- 1939 By May literally hundreds of thousands [of eider ducks] have arrived to feed in the sea and rest idly on the edge of land-floe and ice-pan.
- 1850 (1852) The land-floe was still fast, reaching twenty-five or thirty miles off shore, and the pack had drifted off some ten or fifteen miles.