field ice (feldis)

Ice formed in fields or large flat surfaces, in the polar seas, and in detached ma es constituting floes: distinguished from the ice of icebergs or hummocks. Heavy field - ice was found off Cape Sabine, increasing in size and thickne as the ship advanced, until the captain refused to go further, and at eight o'clock in the evening she was tied up to a floe. Schley and Soley , Rescue of Greely, p. 45. The