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noun

the outer margin of the Antarctic ice sheet, which extends beyond the coastline.

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How to use ice barrier in a sentence

The village of Bagnes, in Switzerland, overwhelmed by the giving away of an ice barrier.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
A few hours later we were landing beside the Albatross, in the leaden blue sea beyond the ice barrier.
Astounding Stories, April, 1931|Various
By one o'clock in the afternoon the river had risen eight feet, but the ice barrier still held.
The Magnetic North|Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
Slasher, more wolf than dog, stood snarling his red-eyed hate in the face of the new-formed ice barrier.
Connie Morgan in Alaska|James B. Hendryx

And he saw the lofty ice barrier, which in some places is as much as 300 feet high.
From Pole to Pole|Sven Anders Hedin