Meanings of icecap in English

In 2008, Denmark redistricted Greenland, drawing lines straight across the vast icecap.

This one was as cool as the icecap on Mount Ida.

It was impossible for them to land on an icecap.

Last month I explored the largest icecap outside the polar regions and was overcome by the blues.

It was the planet's icecap, upside down.

Dunski thought briefly of the melting Arctic icecap and the rising waters along the seawalls surrounding Manhattan Island.

Boulders deposited by a glacial icecap dot the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, June 23, 2011.

In 2000, he was in Greenland for more than 100 days, crossing the icecap twice and guiding in Thule.

It will melt a hole through the polar icecap, and all that metal will sink to the bottom, sucking the biomass down with it.

The serious, systematic study of medicine was intensifying, and to scientists the human body was like the polar icecap, something to be studied and explored.

The dramatic story of eight Irishmen who sailed around the Arctic icecap in a yacht is one of great courage and skill, writes Lorna Siggins.

The south polar region was also markedly glaciated, though the icecap was not as extensive as either of those at the poles of the earth.

The Antarctic icecap could melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans could freeze and the whole world be locked in an eternal winter.

The ring's "top"-most segment, centered on Greenwich, was frosty white, like a polar icecap flanked by purple mountains, green hills, and blue water.

Prof Latif told me: "Global warming has paused," adding that the extreme glacial retreats and icecap melting seen recently would for the time being cease.

Only a handful of climbers have set eyes on the Devils Thumb the Stikine Icecap region in Alaska.