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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Set in 2500, the movie finds the planet underwater after rising seas and melting ice caps covered the land, driving humans onto floating communities.
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Lia Beck, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Rather than a continuous ice sheet, all that remained were high ice caps and glaciers on or near mountaintops.
—Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
McCauley said being a ferry pilot has provided him so many opportunities — flying low over the African savanna, over Greenland ice caps, and so many more places.
—Celeste Edenloff, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, the melting of the polar ice cap is opening up potential trade routes that could reshape global shipping.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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Lia Beck, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Rather than a continuous ice sheet, all that remained were high ice caps and glaciers on or near mountaintops.
—Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
McCauley said being a ferry pilot has provided him so many opportunities — flying low over the African savanna, over Greenland ice caps, and so many more places.
—Celeste Edenloff, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, the melting of the polar ice cap is opening up potential trade routes that could reshape global shipping.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Ice cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20cap. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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