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Juneau Icefield lies 2,000 feet north of Juneau and extends through the border with British Columbia and is the fifth-largest ice field in North America.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 3 July 2024
In fact, the glacier has diminished so greatly that scientists have reclassified it as an ice field.
—Andrea Vasquez Guillen, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
Its wetlands serve as a pit stop for 180 species of migratory birds, including America’s national bird, on their springtime journey towards the ice fields and glaciers at the road’s northernmost reaches.
—Teddy Brokaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
Meteorites are particularly plentiful in blue ice fields.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
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First Known Use
1694, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Ice field.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20field. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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ice field
noun
: ice cap
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