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What (who) is icecap - definition
ICE MASS THAT COVERS LESS THAN 50,000 KM² OF LAND AREA
Icecaps; Ice caps; Icecap; Plateau glacier
ice cap
also ice-cap
(ice caps)
The ice caps are the thick layers of ice and snow that cover the North and South Poles.
N-COUNT: usu the N
ice cap
¦ noun a permanent covering of ice over a large area, especially on the polar region of a planet.
Lillooet Icecap
GLACIER IN CANADA
Lillooet Icefield
The Lillooet Icecap, also called the Lillooet Icefield or the Lillooet Crown, is a large icefield in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is about northwest of the towns of Pemberton and Whistler, and about north of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Ice cap
In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi) of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi) are termed ice sheets.
Examples of use of icecap
1. One of the UK‘s top paraplegic adventurers is attempting to cross Greenland‘s icecap.
2. Chris Alden reports Friday May 5, 2006 Karen Darke in training for her crossing of the Greenland icecap.
3. Quite apart from the 600km distance, most of the icecap rises above 2,000m.
4. Now – a few hurricanes and a shrinking icecap later – targets are out of fashion.
5. This happened with my second question and with my third, and I was calculating that at this rate I‘d be stuck in Chicago until the icecap melted.