icescape

Instead, The Golden Compass's action climax is a long battle on an icescape -- a scene with a fine cinematic antecedents, from Alexander Nevsky to The Empire Strikes Back.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

The indigenous names for features of the landscape – for streams, lakes, mountains, valleys, plains, and tundra meadows – as well as the icescape and features of the sea are not merely geographically descriptive.

Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic 2009

From our front picture window, we could see the twin-engine mail plane flying against the incredibly beautiful winter snow and icescape each morning and night.

CSS: Christmas Cheer Jack Canfield 2008

From our front picture window, we could see the twin-engine mail plane flying against the incredibly beautiful winter snow and icescape each morning and night.

CSS: Christmas Cheer Jack Canfield 2008

The low-grade waste heat of their thermodynamically intense lifestyle will turn the crystalline icescape pliable and treacherous.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

Satellite imagery is now also used routinely by indigenous hunters in the Canadian Arctic as a tool for safe and efficient navigation in the icescape.

Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6 2008

Why would human beings cling to life in such a dismal and godforsaken icescape?

Review of The Voyage of the Short Serpenet, by Bernard du Boucheron 2008

Try the reviewer's description "a sort of Patrick O'Brian meets Edgar Allan Poe against the backdrop of a J.M.W. Turner icescape."

Archive 2007-01-01 Tripp 2007

They were hoping for fertility and riches, the land of their dreams, and all they got was an interminable icescape.

Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

The disparate buildings of the station were spread out in the hollow below Observation Hill, adding a pattern of dull color to the icescape around it.

Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996