ice island
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ice island
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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For three decades it was a static "ice island".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024
Escamilla worked on T-3, also known as Fletcher’s ice island, a Manhattan-size hunk of ice that at the time was floating north of Canada in the Arctic Ocean, roughly 350 miles from the North Pole.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2020
It was immense, an ice island with mountains and valleys.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2018
It was the most massive ice island to break away in the Arctic in a half-century of observation.
From US News ● Aug. 13, 2010
This course took us well off the great ice island.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Stables, Gordon
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