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Ice cap   /aɪs kæp/   Listen
Ice cap

noun
1.
A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).  Synonym: icecap.






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"Ice cap" Quotes from Famous Books



... North Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe; sparse population confined to small settlements along coast, but close to one-quarter of the population lives in the capital, Nuuk; world's second largest ice cap ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... which Icebergs, from time to time, break away. We do not exactly know what, under such circumstances, the slope would be; but Mr. Croll points out that if we take it at only half a degree, and this seems quite a minimum, the Ice cap at the South Pole must be no less than twelve miles in thickness. It is indeed probably even more, for some of the Southern tabular icebergs attain a height of eight hundred, or even a thousand feet above water, ...
— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock



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