A sheet of ice in the form of a long border attached to the bank or shore. Compact sea ice that is attached to the shore and/or to anchoring points on shallow sea beds. It is a type of fast ice and may sometimes be rafted ice or ice that has been beached by wind, tides, currents, or by ice pressure. Has a synonym border ice.
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