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Some delighted in circulating persistent rumors that they left infants with disabilities in the ice-fields of Andor to perish in the harsh elements.

Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

It may be that governments and/or companies will seek to be first to the ice-fields of the Lunar South Pole and make a claim.

Peter Diamandis: Most Valuable Real Estate in the Solar System 2009

The proximate location of newly discovered ice-fields, next to these "peaks of eternal light," will allow for the creation of fuel depots where water is mined and then solar energy is used to break it down to Hydrogen and Oxygen for rocket fuel (a process known as hydrolysis).

Peter Diamandis: Most Valuable Real Estate in the Solar System 2009

Because of the extremely cold, dry climate, along with the ice-fields and lack of soil materials, the high and mid-elevations are largely devoid of significant populations of plants and animals.

Arctic Cordillera ecoregion (CEC) 2008

The climax to the story has an appropriately dramatic and Gothic/Romantic backdrop as Frankenstein and his creature, interchangeably the pursuer and the pursued, move across the ice-fields of the North Pole to a climax of murder and suicide.

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) 2008

Thus, guided by this clever hand, the Nautilus passed through all the ice with a precision which quite charmed Conseil; icebergs or mountains, ice-fields or smooth plains, seeming to have no limits, drift-ice or floating ice-packs, plains broken up, called palchs when they are circular, and streams when they are made up of long strips.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

It was no longer either streams, packs, or ice-fields, but an interminable and immovable barrier, formed by mountains soldered together.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

Away down here fifty-five degrees south of the equator this sea seems to murmur in an unfamiliar tongue — a foreign tongue — a tongue bred among the ice-fields of the antarctic — a murmur with a note of melancholy in it proper to the vast unvisited solitudes it has come from.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

He was never mistaken when he saw the thin threads of bluish water trickling along the ice-fields; and I had no doubt that he had already ventured into the midst of these Antarctic seas before.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

On the 16th of March, however, the ice-fields absolutely blocked our road.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003