What is "crevassed"

Usage examples of "crevassed".

Then they surprised me with an account of a fearfully crevassed piece of surface that they had come upon, forty-six and a half miles from the station, where they had lost two dogs.

II To Face Page Roald Amundsen in Polar Kit Frontispiece A Snow Beacon on the Barrier Surface 4 Reproduced by permission of the Illustrated London News Crevassed Surface on the Barrier 10 Depot in 83 Degrees S.

I say fortunately, as Heaven knows what would have happened to us if we had been obliged to cross a crevassed surface in such weather as we then had.

On the way to the depot, about thirty geographical miles south of Framheim, we had the nasty crevassed surface that had been met with for the first time on the third depot journey in the autumn of 1911 -- in the month of April.

As the horses flew lower over the leading glacier, a huge bull heavily crevassed and scarred by moraine, it became apparent that one reason why the Ice Giants were known as the Ice Giants was because they were, well, giants.