Sentence examples for ice island from inspiring English sources

This ice island carried a manned scientific station from 1952 to 1974.

The Arctic Ocean's equivalent of the classic tabular iceberg of Antarctic waters is the ice island.

Scientists say this ice island is the biggest in the Northern Hemisphere since 1962.

I walked past a reservoir in the spring and saw an ice island.

I was working hard enough for a while that I forgot about the ice island.

An ice island the size of a small U.S. state would then be afloat in the Southern Ocean.

This shelf ice has been the principal source of the ice islands of the Arctic Ocean.

A third source of ice islands, one that has become more active, is northeastern Greenland.

The ice islands were large enough to support helicopters, Mr. Crosby said.

The main source of ice islands used to be the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on Canada's Ellesmere Island near northwestern Greenland, but the ice shelf has been retreating as ice islands and bergs continue to calve from it.

Ice islands can be up to 30 km (19 miles) long but are only some 60 metres (200 feet) thick.