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"ice cap" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to refer to an area of permanent ice cover found at the top of mountains or at the poles. For example: "The melting of the polar ice caps has caused sea levels to rise drastically in some areas."
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ice cap
noun
A permanent expanse of ice encompassing a large geographical area, e.g. in Earth's polar zones or at high elevation.
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The shrinking ice cap.
The ice cap fragments into tiny pieces.
The retail equivalent of the melting Arctic ice cap.
(With a big shout-out to the polar ice cap).
The shrinking ice cap may find a new equilibrium.
A smaller ice cap formed in the Western Cordillera.
The largest glacier is the Cook Ice Cap.
It is the ice cap that keeps the Arctic cold.
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The Mýrdalsjökull ice-cap lies above Katla, one of Iceland's largest and most active subglacial volcanoes.
And I'm going to charge you extra for the ice-cap damage.
Few believed the communist ice-cap would melt so quickly in 1989.
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