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ice barrier

n. a part of the Antarctic ice shelf that extends into the sea

Usage examples of "ice barrier".

Meanwhile several intricate maneuvers had turned the great icerigger sternfirst to the ice barrier.

Scott, Royds and Wilson scrambled on until at last they reached the summit of the highest of the adjacent volcanic cones, and were rewarded by a first view of the Great Ice Barrier.

After the ice barrier had been extended another half meter, the abbot of Veritas sounded a gong, calling a halt to the efforts.

There now stretched off to the east the low, white line of the great ice barrier, rising perpendicularly to a height of two hundred feet like the rocky cliffs of Quebec, and marking the end of southward navigation.

The spikes augmented with a pair of long poles to poke out hidden crevasses, they crept along the edge of the ice barrier.