ice field
Vast frozen plain
A large expanse of floating sea ice, larger than an ice floe but smaller than an ice sheet.
Ice fields form when pack ice consolidates into a continuous mass: The ship navigated through the Arctic ice field.
The term also describes extensive areas of glacial ice on land, particularly interconnected glaciers in mountainous regions.
Deep glacial fissure
- moraineGlacier-deposited debris pile
- seracGlacial ice pinnacle
- calvingIce mass separation
- ablationRemoval by cutting, melting
firn · glaciology · icefall · terminus · cirque · glacial lake · outwash · drumlin
Of extreme latitudes
- permafrostPerpetually frozen earth layer
- InuitArctic indigenous people
- Aurora BorealisPolar atmospheric luminescence
- SvalbardNorwegian Arctic archipelago
Nunavut · Greenland · caribou · polar bear · walrus · seal · arctic fox · midnight sun
crevasse
Deep glacial fissure
ablation · firn · glaciology · icefall · terminus · cirque · glacial lake · outwash · drumlin · esker
polar
Of extreme latitudes
- permafrostPerpetually frozen earth layer
- InuitArctic indigenous people
- Aurora BorealisPolar atmospheric luminescence
Svalbard · Nunavut · Greenland · caribou · polar bear · walrus · seal · arctic fox · midnight sun · icebreaker
vastness
State of being immense
flatland · stretch · barren · featureless · windswept · desolate · remote · treeless · snowfield · monotony
frost
Thin ice coating
- hypothermiaDangerously low body temperature
- frostbiteFreezing of body tissue
- chillCold sensation or relaxation
crystal · slippery · blizzard · whiteout · subzero · frigid · frozen · glaciated · hoarfrost · rime
- Winter Terrainsnow, snowdrift, snowpack, frozen tundra, snowfield
- AntarcticaSouth Pole, Amundsen, Scott, penguins, glaciology
- ice and snowiceberg, hail, sleet, snowflake, frost
- polar regionsAntarctica, polar bears, Arctic Ocean, glaciers, Arctic
- AlpsAlps, Swiss Alps, Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Austrian Alps
- Arctic/Tundratundra, permafrost, arctic fox, polar bear, caribou
ice fieldlava field
Solidified volcanic rock terrain
fire · inferno · volcanic field · lava flow · hot springs
ice fieldopen water
Unobstructed body navigable freely
sea · lake · open ocean · open sea · ocean
ice fielddesert
To leave behind completely
sand dunes · tropical rainforest · savanna · jungle · oasis
ice, field, iced, icing, fields, icicle, ices, glacier, icicles