icecap

[ UK /ˈa‍ɪskæp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)
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How To Use icecap In A Sentence

  • It warns of adverse consequences such as the melting of glaciers and polar icecaps, leading to rising sea levels.
  • The expedition team successfully erected a new research station at Dome Argus (Dome A), the pole's highest icecap, which is 4,093 meters above sea level. Undefined
  • Some day soon, even non-science-fiction readers might come to believe that a moonshot is possible, or a rotary engine, or a heavier-than-air flying machine, or a submersible vehicle capable of sailing under the Antarctic icecap! MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
  • But there is more to be done before it reaches icecap-melting levels of awareness. Times, Sunday Times
  • For green activists perched on a melting icecap, the judgment would have barely registered. Times, Sunday Times
  • His silence in the face of melting icecaps and inundated cities created - exactly as he knew it would - the kind of dissonance that whipped the nation into the frenzy of environmental "Jacobinism" that characterized the 2010s. Born on the Sixth of July: Celebrating George Bush's Secret Presidential Life
  • It turned out to be the highlight of the expedition, the day they breasted the icecap.
  • One idea is that the icecap may shrink and grow naturally over decades. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thanks to global warming, the Arctic icecap is rapidly melting, opening up access to massive natural resources and creating shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year. Arctic Meltdown « Isegoria
  • When the Earth is viewed from space on a cloudless day, all that can be seen are the edges of land, sea and icecaps.
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