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However, when the ship became stuck in polar pack ice, the crew had to abandon it.
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Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
This is the stern of the good ship Endurance, which sank off the coast of Antarctica in 1915 after being crushed by pack ice.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 June 2024
The Endurance was found at a depth of nearly 10,000 feet in the Weddell Sea, located east of the Antarctic Peninsula, having sunk after being trapped in dense pack ice.
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Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
Today the Arctic is warming at a rate twice that of the rest of the world; summer pack ice may be gone by 2040 with trans-Arctic commercial shipping and industrial development soon to begin, and Arctic peoples are now represented at the United Nations.
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Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1842, in the meaning defined above
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“Pack ice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pack%20ice. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
pack ice
noun
: sea ice formed into a mass by the crushing together of chunks and sheets of ice
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