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