The immense sheet of ice, over 400 miles wide and of still greater length, which lies south of Ross Island to the west of Victoria Land.
_Brash_.

Small ice fragments from a floe that is breaking up.
_Drift_.

Snow swept from the ground like dust and driven before the wind.
_Finnesko_.

Fur boots.
_Flense, flence_.

To cut the blubber from a skin or carcase.
_Frost_ _smoke_.