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Ice in transportation
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The list Ice in transportation includes
Ice Road Truckers, Kaj Riska, Icing conditions, Ice road and Iceberg.
The list consists of 9 members
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Ice
Frozen water: the solid state of water
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Ice Road Truckers
US-Canadian reality television series
Overview: Ice Road Truckers (commercially abbreviated IRT) is a reality television series that aired on History Channel from 2007 to 2017. It featured the activities of drivers who operated trucks on ice roads ...Genre: History, DocumentaryDirector: Andy PapadopoulosThe story behind the most dangerous trucking routes in the world: hauling freight across the frozen lakes of Canada's Northwest Territories during ...
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Kaj Riska
Finnish engineer
Overview: Kaj Antero Riska (born January 25, 1953, Helsinki, Finland) is a naval architect and engineer with expertise in ice and arctic technology. He has written various publications about ice-going ships and ... 0
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International Ice Patrol
Organization monitoring icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic
Overview: The International Ice Patrol is an organization with the purpose of monitoring the presence of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and reporting their movements for safety purposes. It is operated ... 0
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Icing conditions
Atmospheric conditions that can lead to the formation of ice on aircraft surfaces and lead to substantial disturbance of the aerodynamics.
Overview: In aviation, icing conditions are atmospheric conditions that can lead to the formation of water ice on an aircraft. Ice accretion can affect the external surfaces of an aircraft – in which case it is ... 0
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Iceberg
Large piece of freshwater ice broken off a glacier or ice shelf and floating in open water
Overview: An iceberg is a piece of fresh water ice more than 15 meters (16 yards) long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. Smaller chunks of floating glacially derived ... 0
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Ice pier
A man-made structure used to assist the unloading of ships in Antarctica
Overview: An ice pier or ice wharf is a man-made structure used to assist the unloading of ships in Antarctica. It is constructed by pumping seawater into a contained area and allowing the water to freeze. By r ... 0
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Tour skating
Recreational ice skating
Overview: Tour skating is recreational long distance ice skating on natural ice. It is particularly popular in the Netherlands and the Nordic countries. It is becoming more popular in areas of North America such ... 0
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Ice road
Path made over frozen water rather than land
Overview: An ice road or ice bridge is a human-made structure that runs on a frozen water surface (a river, a lake or a sea water expanse). Ice roads are typically part of a winter road, but they can also be simple ... 0
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National Ice Center
Echelon V command of the U.S. NavyOverview: The U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) is a tri-agency operational center and echelon V command of the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), whose mission is to provide worldwide navigational ice analyses ... 0
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