ice field
1 : an extensive sheet of sea ice
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//An image taken on June 18, 2019 of the Kangersuneq glacial ice fields in Kapissisillit, Greenland.
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Jasmine Aguilera, Time, "Siberian Wildfires and Heatwaves in Alaska: How the Arctic Is Nearing a Point of No Return," 2 Aug. 2019
//The ice field that eventually empties into the North Atlantic Ocean seemed still, masking the very activity that Holland and his team were here to study.
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Denise Chow, NBC News, "My night stranded on the edge of Greenland's fast-melting Helheim Glacier," 17 Sep. 2019
//Additional ground reconnaissance determined which blue-ice fields had the highest concentrations of meteorites.
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Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, "Polar Light," 10 Jan. 2019
//From the Cape of Good Hope the expedition looped along the edge of the great ice fields, and Cook then made two Pacific circuits, visiting New Zealand, Tahiti and the Marquesas, the Tonga archipelago, and the New Hebrides.
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Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, "Island Hopping," 7 Feb. 2019
//These factors range from the strength of ocean currents to the gravitational pull of large ice fields.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Video: Why our rising oceans aren’t causing problems everywhere," 5 Dec. 2018
//World-famous aerial photographer Austin Post went up to map the ice field with JIRP in 1953, and Ed LaChapelle, snow science guru considered the grandfather of American avalanche research, was a JIRP field leader from 1954-1956.
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Scott Yorko, Popular Mechanics, "Back to Alaska: How a Legendary Glacier Adventure Almost Died When the World Needed It Most," 12 Sep. 2018
//Climbing season on Denali has ended but sightseeing flights can still land on the glacier, allowing visitors to walk on the ice field, said park service spokeswoman Katherine Belcher.
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Dan Joling, Fox News, "4 dead, 1 missing in Alaska sightseeing plane crash," 6 Aug. 2018
//Those wanting more can make the strenuous 8.2-mile round-trip hike up the Harding Icefield Trail for spectacular views of the massive ice field.
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Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, "11 glacier adventures near Anchorage," 2 May 2018
First Known Use of ice field
1694, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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