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Floe

A floe is any contiguous piece of sea ice. Floes may be described in terms of several size categories:

• Giant: over 10 km across
• Vast: 2-10 km across
• Big: 500-2000 m across
• Medium: 100-500 m across
• Small: 20-100 m across
• Floes less than 20 m across are called cake ice