ice cave
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ice cave
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Police said in their press release around 18:00 that an ice cave had collapsed.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
It was filmed in an ice cave that isn’t on any standard maps, one she and Navarro are later told has whale bones frozen inside its ceiling.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
To get to the glacier from the road, his students walk across mounds of white tarps, stretched around an ice cave carved for tourists.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 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
There was only a narrow opening in the slowly encircling ring of sea lions, and this the adventurers made for, running toward the ice cave.
From Through the Air to the North Pole or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Roy Rockwood
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