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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Alongside Cruise feeding and stroking his dying cat while walking around his mansion with his gut hanging out, there are shots of planes readying for battle and collapsing polar ice caps.
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Brent Lang, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
Scientists say the ice cap is an extraordinary trove of data about pre-industrial human activity and environmental change.
—Nidhi Sharma, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
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Brent Lang, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
Scientists say the ice cap is an extraordinary trove of data about pre-industrial human activity and environmental change.
—Nidhi Sharma, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
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“Ice cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20cap. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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