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fast ice

sea ice that is immobile due to its attachment to a coast, usually extending offshore to about the 20-m isobath
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fast ice

Summary

fast ice is an ice floe[1]. It draws 43 Wikipedia views per month (ice_floe category, ranking #2 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • fast ice's image is recorded as Cape Churchill fast ice1.JPG[3].
  • fast ice's instance of is recorded as ice floe[4].
  • fast ice's subclass of is recorded as sea ice[5].
  • fast ice's Commons category is recorded as Fast ice[6].
  • fast ice's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03bx3t3[7].
  • fast ice's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/fast-ice[8].
  • fast ice's different from is recorded as drift ice[9].
  • fast ice's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001522[10].
  • fast ice's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 01001522[11].
  • fast ice's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 87280874[12].
  • fast ice's Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID is recorded as ledujai[13].
  • fast ice's Glossary of Meteorology ID is recorded as 11168[14].
  • fast ice's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C87280874[15].

Why It Matters

fast ice draws 43 Wikipedia views per month (ice_floe category, ranking #2 of 2).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fast-ice_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{fast ice}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fast-ice}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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