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Meanings of glacier tongue in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ice tongue"
Examples for "ice tongue"
1
All this time he'd heard the distant booming and grinding of this massive ice tongue.
2
Coastal glaciers like this floating ice tongue tend to block the ice flow headed for the sea.
3
Several more technical aid moves, and after two hours nerve-grinding climbing Mugs reached an ice tongue that led to easier ground.
4
Massom said the shearing off of the ice tongue and the presence of the Mertz and B-9B icebergs could affect global ocean circulation.
5
It also meant crossing the Drygalski Ice Tongue, an obstacle which bulked very formidably in their imaginations during the winter.
Usage of glacier tongue in English
1
The glacier tongue was still reaching over this rocky area.
2
As far as I can see the open water extends to an east and west line which is a little short of the glacier tongue.
3
The next day we sighted a long, low ice wall, and took it at first for a long glacier tongue stretching seaward from the land.
4
The Mertz Glacier Tongue, at a point 50 miles from the land
5
We reached Glacier Tongue about one and a half miles from the seaward end.
6
Glacier Tongue lies roughly six miles to the S.S.E.
7
As soon as we saw them well advanced we steamed on to the Glacier Tongue.
8
They had found the sea-ice gone between Glacier Tongue and Winter Quarters and so were empty-handed.
9
These literary efforts were incorporated in a small publication known as "The Glacier Tongue."
10
From the Glacier Tongue we still pushed north.
11
Cleared in patches also, I am told, on both sides of Glacier Tongue, which is annoying.
12
Joyce had already searched south of Glacier Tongue.
13
To the northward of Cape Royds was taboo, as also was the coast south of Glacier Tongue.
14
Patches seem to be remaining south of the Glacier Tongue and the Island and off our own bay.
15
Ship transports following to Glacier Tongue:
16
On the afternoon of the 24th we turned back, and covering nearly eleven miles, camped inside the Glacier Tongue.
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