floeberg
[ floh-burg ]
/ ˈfloʊ bɜrg /
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noun
a mass of ice floes resembling an iceberg.
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We are sheltered north of a huge paleocrystic floeberg; and the dogs are at rest, with their noses in their tails.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole|Matthew A. HensonWe pitched camp on a floeberg of unusual height; about us were many big hummocks, and to the lee of these banks of hardened snow.
My Attainment of the Pole|Frederick A. Cook