Long, narrow sheet of ice projecting from a coastline.
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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.
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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