frozen sea
Ice-covered ocean area
A frozen sea is a body of saltwater covered by ice, either seasonally or year-round.
The term appears in geography for polar regions where ocean surfaces freeze: The ship navigated through the frozen sea.
Figuratively, it can describe emotional coldness or isolation—Kafka wrote that a book must be "the axe for the frozen sea within us."
- arcticOf extreme northern cold
- polar ice capFrozen mass at poles
- iceWater's solid form
- glacialOf frozen rivers
- polarOf extreme latitudes
ice floe · tundra · floe · pack ice · frostbitten · icebound · winter · expedition · aurora · permafrost · drift · cracking · thin ice · silence · desolate · icebreaker · seal · walrus
- polar iceiceberg, ice sheet, ice cap, ice floe, Greenland ice sheet
- polar regionsAntarctica, polar bears, Arctic Ocean, glaciers, Arctic
- frozen landstundra, glacier, iceberg, ice sheet, ice cap
- winter coldsnowstorm, snow, cold front, ice, arctic air
- Polar SeasArctic Ocean, Antarctic Ocean, Southern Ocean, pack ice, ice floe
frozen, freeze, freezes, freezing, froze, freezer, freezers, frozenness, unfreeze