OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3612

polynya

/pə(ʊ)ˈlɪnjə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
polinia
A naturally formed transient area of open water surrounded by sea ice, especially in polar or subpolar seas.
Hoping to reach the starting-place in the early season of navigation, he intends to follow his course of travel nearly upon a meridional line, which would, it is believed, lead him…
We immediately ascended a hill, and saw that the supposed land was nothing but hummocks of ice, piled up beyond a large Polynia, or space of open water, which extended from east to…
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