An amateur photographer has captured incredible "ice pancakes" as temperatures in Scotland dropped to -12℃.
当苏格兰地区的气温降至零下12摄氏度时，一位业余摄影爱好者在当地捕捉到了不可思议的"薄饼冰"。
The striking phenomenon usually occurs only in the Arctic or Baltic Sea. But Andy Williams snapped the images of the ice frozen in a flat, round shape on the Ullapool River in the Highlands.
这一奇观通常只出现在北极地区和波罗的海。安迪·威廉姆斯却在苏格兰高地的乌拉普尔河的河面上捕捉到了凝固成扁平圆形的冰块。

The 55-year-old said: "I do voluntary bird surveys for the British Trust for Ornithology and I was just out doing a coastal bird survey. I walked past the mouth of the river and ice was forming there. I've seen it many times off the sea off Greenland. I haven't seen it in Scotland before. It was why I took the snaps."
这名55岁的目击者表示：“我是负责为英国鸟类学基金做自愿的鸟类调查的。当时我正在外出做一项关于沿海鸟类调查。当我走过河口时，我发现冰块已经形成了。在格陵兰岛附近的海域上，我已经见过这种冰很多次了。但是在苏格兰，我之前还从未见过。这就是为什么我拍下了照片。”
Pancake ice's elevated rims are formed when slush piles up as they collide. Ice pancakes often eventually meld together to form sheet ice.
当雪泥聚集在一起发生碰撞后，其边缘拱起，便形成饼状冰。通常，多块饼状冰最终会冻结在一起，形成片状冰。