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

Both ice field and desert offer gradations of white and gray, strongly contrasted by dark areas that include skies whose original blues become intense blacks.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2019

When the exhausted crew of Endurance gave up the battle against the pressure and abandoned the ship, the ice field around her was not a sight to inspire confidence.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong