ice field
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We flew into skies choked with smoke from the Canadian wildfires—I couldn’t escape the fires after all—and over glaciers and an ice field that are in the process of disappearing.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024
Trond Johansen was 17 when he arrived in Longyearbyen in 1971 on a plane chartered by the mining company that landed on an ice field – the airport would be built a few years later.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
Scientists search an ice field in Antarctica for meteorites.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2023
The sight of a Victorian-era naval ship listing atop an Arctic ice field, her crew on board, hundreds of miles from civilization, is enough to send chills up the spine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
Because the water forces out salt as it freezes, the water below the ice field is saturated with salt and minerals, and the ice itself is clean enough to melt into drinking water.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
