ice cap
noun
1
: a cover of perennial ice and snow
specifically
: a glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land and flowing outward from its center
2
: an ice bag shaped to the head
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Attempts to tap ‘frozen capital’ The majority of the world’s freshwater is locked up in glaciers and ice caps, primarily in Antarctica and Greenland; each year up to 300 billion tons of water melt from the Greenlandic ice sheet, per the territory’s government.
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Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
The park’s Skaftafellsstofa Visitor Centre in Skaftafell, Iceland (about a four-hour drive from Reykjavík) is open year-round and provides direct access to the Skaftafellsjökull glacier, part of the greater Vatnajökull ice cap.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
Greenland covers more than 836,000 square miles ‒ three times the size of Texas, with about 80% covered by a massive ice cap.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
An evening-length piece about climate change certainly touches both, using dance to tell the fractured story of rising seas, melting polar ice caps and the collective, global responsibility to do something about it.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
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Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
The park’s Skaftafellsstofa Visitor Centre in Skaftafell, Iceland (about a four-hour drive from Reykjavík) is open year-round and provides direct access to the Skaftafellsjökull glacier, part of the greater Vatnajökull ice cap.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
Greenland covers more than 836,000 square miles ‒ three times the size of Texas, with about 80% covered by a massive ice cap.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
An evening-length piece about climate change certainly touches both, using dance to tell the fractured story of rising seas, melting polar ice caps and the collective, global responsibility to do something about it.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
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“Ice cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20cap. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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