ice cave
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ice cave
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Police said in their press release around 18:00 that an ice cave had collapsed.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2024
As early as 1947, residents around Switzerland’s Aletsch glacier were spreading sawdust across the roof of an ice cave created for tourists to shield it from the sun’s radiation.
From Scientific American • Mar. 6, 2023
One of the tours leads to an ice cave and Bernlow, who’s been here for more than a decade, said they’re watching it disappear year after year.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2023
“Beautiful, extreme, vulnerable,” Nico Mookhoek, 34, a guide for Green Dog Svalbard, said on a six-hour sled trip down the Bolter Valley to visit a melting glacier and an ice cave.
From New York Times • May 19, 2022
It issues, under the name of the Bhagirathi, from an ice cave at the foot of a Himalayan snow-bed near Gangotri, 10,300 ft. above the level of the sea.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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