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icescape

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[ahys-skayp] / ˈaɪsˌskeɪp /

noun

  1. a landscape covered with ice or with snow and ice.

    the limitless icescapes of Antarctica.


Etymology

Origin of icescape

First recorded in 1900–05; ice + -scape


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By day, the sun danced across an icescape dotted with harp seal mothers and pups with cloud-soft fur, obsidian eyes, and charcoal noses.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

He spent 78 days on the icescape leading an expedition to map the geology and document the creatures and plants fossilized in Jurassic-age rocks to better understand how the ancient supercontinent Gondwana broke apart.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

There are no mountains, no permanent topographical features of any kind, just a jumbled, jagged icescape.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2018

For the once enormous icescape ringing the North Pole, the results have been dramatic.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017

It was like a spider’s web, the ridges and floes forming an intricate icescape that lured them farther in.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2016

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